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E N T H U SI A S T S;
“ Paul said, I am not mad, most noble Feftus, but speak the
66 words of truth and soberness.--Acts xxv. 26.
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1 L Q N D 0 N : PRINTED, FOR C.' DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.
M.DCC.XCVIII.
Entered at Stationers' Ball. C Ο Ν Τ Ε Ν Τ S.
CH A P. I.
The apofles and evangelists were not enthusiasts, because they did 196
embrace the faith which they taught, till they had required and received
sufficient proofs of its divine original.
SECT. I. The general statement and division of the subje&t. Page 1
SECT. II. The fall of the apolles in their Lord, at its first origin
and progress, was founded not on the delusions of enthusiasm, but ori
rational proofs.
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SECT. III. Some circumstances which have afforded pretexts for im-
puting our Lord's miracles to the force of enthusiasm, considered and
explained.
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SECT. IV. The nature of the miracles wrought by our Lord
during his public ministry, and the circumstances which attended them,
prove they cannot be ascribed to the power of enthufiam.
SECT. V. The apostles belief in our Lord's resurrection, and in the
fwsequent manifestation of his divine power, was not imputable to en-
thusiasm.
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C Η Α Ρ. II.
Containing arguments to prove that the apostles were not enthufiafls, from
their not requiring faith in others without fupplying sufficient evidence
to justify it.
SECT. I. The apofiles converted men not by enth:fiaflic delusions,
but by working public and indisputable MIRACLES.
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SECT. II. The arguments from PROPHECY adduced by the apolles
could not derive their weight from the influence of enthufiafm--proved
in this section, so far as relates to the Prophecies of the Old Testa-
ment, which the apostles aferted were accomplished in the person of
our Saviour.
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SECT. III. The prophecies delivered by our Saviour, end such
predictions of the apofiles as are conneded with them, are not imputa-
ble to enthusiasm.
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SECT. IV. The mode in which the apostles proposed the evidence
of Christianity was free from enthusiasm.
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С НА Р. III. The conduct of the apostles, shewn to be inconsistent with the supposi-
tion of their having been enthufiafls.
SECT. I. The general conduct of the apostles in their private capa-
city, inconsistent with enthusiasm.
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SECT. II. The conduct of the apostles in the regulation of the church,
proves them to have been exempt from enthufiam.
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SECT.