This 3-volume work is the result of many years of earnest and serious investigation, undertaken in the first instance for the regulation of personal belief of the author. His main object has been conscientiously and fully to state the facts of the case, to make no assertions the grounds for which are not clearly given, and as far as possible to place before the reader the materials from which a judgment may be intelligently formed regarding the important subject discussed. Fear of the results of investigation, in author's opinion, should deter no man, for the issue in any case is gain: emancipation from delusion, or increase of assurance. That which is true in Religion cannot be shaken; that which is false no one can desire to preserve.

Contents:

Miracles in Relation to Christianity

Miracles in Relation to the Order of Nature

Reason in Relation to the Order of Nature

The Age of Miracles

The Permanent Stream of Miraculous Pretension

Miracles in Relation to Ignorance and Superstition

The Synoptic Gospels:

Clement of Rome – The Epistle of Barnabas – The Pastor of Hermas

The Epistles of Ignatius – The Epistle of Polycarp

Justin Martyr

Hegesippus – Papias of Hierapolis

The Clementines – The Epistle to Diognetus

Basilides – Valentinus

Marcion

Tatian – Dionysius of Corinth

Melito of Sardis – Claudius Apollinaris – Athenagoras – The Epistle of Vienne and Lyons

Ptolemæus and Heracleon – Celsus – The Canon of Muratori – Results

The Fourth Gospel:

The External Evidence

Authorship and Character of the Fourth Gospel

The Acts of the Apostles:

The External Evidence

Evidence Regarding the Authorship

Design and Composition

Primitive Christianity

Stephen the Martyr

Philip and the Eunuch. Peter and Cornelius

Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles

The Direct Evidence for Miracles:

The Epistles and the Apocalypse

The Evidence of Paul

The Resurrection and Ascension:

The Relation of Evidence to Subject

The Evidence of the Gospels

The Evidence of Paul

Conclusions