Sermons and Essays on the Apostolical Age (Classic Reprint)

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Such historical representations of the first age of Christianity, as I have here ventured to attempt, are so necessary to a right interpretation of many parts of the New Testament, as well as so instruo tive in themselves, that there has been hardly any age of the Church in which they have not been more or less frequent. Cave's Lives of the Apostles and Butler's Lives of the Saints are familiar in stances in which the individual human characters of the several Apostles have been exhibited at con siderable length. And it is natural to expect that a branch of sacred criticism, to which so much atten tion was paid under the manifold disadvantages of former times, should not be neglected now, amidst our many additional means of investigating and illustrating the events of past times, and at a time when the reasons for endeavouring to form a lively conception of the scenes of Scripture history have been certainly increased rather than diminished.

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