THE

EVIDENCES

OF

CHRISTIANITY:

STATED IN

A POPULAR AND PRACTICAL MANNER,

IN A COURSE OF LECTURES, DELIVERED IN THE PARISH CHURCH
OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON.

BY DANIEL WILSON, M. A. VICAR,

NOW BISHOP OF CALCUTTA.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

CONTAINING THE LECTURES ON

THE AUTHENTICITY, CREDIBILITY, DIVINE AUTHORITY
AND INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

Sixth Edition, Revised and Improved

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CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

LECTURE I.

INTRODUCTION.-1 PETER iii. 15.... . . .

The Christian's reason for the hope that is in him.
The meekness and fear with which he gives it.

The object of this Course of Lectures..

Suggested by various motives...

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Advantages for a defence of our faith afforded by the circumstances

of the times..

Order of Lectures...

Importance of the subject.....

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To be entered upon with prayer to God.....

LECTURE II.

THE TEMPER OF MIND IN WHICH THE SUBJECT

SHOULD BE STUDIED.-LUKE xviii. 17...

A MEEK AND DOCILE DISPOSITION....

THE ENTIRE WANT OF IT IN UNBELIEVERS...

In the literary and scientific..

Uninformed and negligent..

Low and profane.......

THE INDISPENSABLE IMPORTANCE OF A CHILD-LIKE SPIRIT evident

from the influence of the passions over the understanding...... 36

From the acknowledged necessity of it in every important investi-
gation......

From the vast superiority of the question..

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