. Lectures in divinity . llence. As the falfe gofpels havefunk in credit, the true Gofpels have rifen; eventhough the admiration of them now (hould not beflironger than it was at firft. Bilhop Hiird has fhewn, by his Sermons, how agreat critic (in the highefl fenfe of the word) may open * Jer. Jones, Vol. 5. f Moiheim, Vol. i. 8vo. p. 256. VOL. I. K 146 BOOK I- CHAP. XIII. SECT. XIII. open new beauties and excellencies of Scripture;and the more we improve our minds, the more weadmire the paffages exhibited in the eleventh Sedionof this Chapter. Other men will hereaitcr probablyadmire them
. Lectures in divinity . llence. As the falfe gofpels havefunk in credit, the true Gofpels have rifen; eventhough the admiration of them now (hould not beflironger than it was at firft. Bilhop Hiird has fhewn, by his Sermons, how agreat critic (in the highefl fenfe of the word) may open * Jer. Jones, Vol. 5. f Moiheim, Vol. i. 8vo. p. 256. VOL. I. K 146 BOOK I- CHAP. XIII. SECT. XIII. open new beauties and excellencies of Scripture;and the more we improve our minds, the more weadmire the paffages exhibited in the eleventh Sedionof this Chapter. Other men will hereaitcr probablyadmire them more. Thus, every new improvement of the humanmind will difcover new inftances of the excellenceof Chriftianity; and every new inftance of its ex-cellence will be a new proof of its truth. Well may the learned Daille fay, as he does,* La fagefle exquife et Iineftimable beaute de la* Difcipline meme de Jefus Chrift, eft (je Tavoue) le plus fort et le plus fur argument de fa *verite. * On the Fathers near the end, p. CHAP. BOOK I. CHAP. XIV. SECT. I. 147 CHAP. XIV. OF THE EVIDENCE, WHICH A BOOK MAY CONTAININ ITSELF,OF THE TRUTHS OF FACTS RELATEDIN IT. I. TN the Introduction to this fet of Chapters,X beginning with the 12th and extending to theend of this Book, it was laid down, that the Hiflory,which the writers of the New Teftament give, con-tains in itfelf^ and impHes, fufficient Teftimony ofthe principal fads recorded : this we are now toconfider more at large; and every thing proved v/illgo to confirm the propofition contained in theHeads of Leftures, that the Gofpel Narratives werenot invented.—In order that our reafoning on thisfubjedt may have its free courfe, and its properweight and effect, it will be expedient, before wefpeak of the New Teftament, to take ^general viewof the nature of internal hijlorical evidence ; and toilluftrate our general obfervations by examples,about which thofe, who want conviction withregard to Revelation, have no prejudices. —It is
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