CHAPs

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

XXVIII.

XXIX.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

XXXIV.

XXXV.

XXXVI.

XXXVII.

XXXVIII.

XXXIX.

7.

11.

12.

13.

Passages of Celsus, in which he chargeth the

christians with magical practices to- *

. Of christian worship, and their assemblies -

. Passages in Celsusconcerning thosecalled Heretics

10.

Passages in Celsus, containing calumnies, or in-

jurious reflections upon the christians -

Remarks upon the work of Celsus against the

christians, and upon Origen's answer to it -

The Recapitulation - o -

Three summaries of the fragments of the works

of Celsus preserved in Origen, made by three

several learned men - *-> -

Lucian of Samosata to- - o -

AElius Aristides the Sophist, and Dion Chrysostom

Galen - e- - - -

Conclusion of the second century - -

The persecution of Severus, and Spartian's testi-

mony to it o - s -

Diogenes Laertius * - - -

Alexander Severus - - -> -

Ulpian - - - o -

Dion Cassius - go - i- to-

The persecution of Maximin the First, or the

Thracian - - - - -

The Emperor Philip. The question consi-

dered, whether he was a christian *- -

The Emperor Decius - --> go a-

The Emperor Gallus - - o -

The Emperors Valerian and Gallienus - -

Amelius - o - o -

Longinus - so -> o -

Numenius - o- - - o

The Emperor Aurelian - - * -

Porphyry - - - es -

Six writers of the Augustan history - -

Two authors who wrote against the christians in the

time of Dioclesian's persecution, the one anony-

mous, the other supposed to be Hierocles.

Where also of Apollonius Tyanaeus, and the

two lives of Pythagoras written by Porphyry

and Jamblichus * - - •

An Appendix to Chap. XXXIX. - co-

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256

258

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265

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200 300

302

202 308

210 318

222 329

334

338

235 347

244 349

249 356

251 360

253 36]

263 372

264 376

270 3Sl

385

. . . 390

306 468

308 471

508

CHAP.

XL.

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Dioclesian's persecution of the christians 303—313 515

A review of the foregoing period, from the begin-

ning of the third century to the conversion of

Constantine: with some general observations

upon the state of christianity under heathen

emperors - {-, s to; so 553

Chalcidius go so o to - 325 570

Alexander of Lycopolis, in Egypt o - 350 574

Praxagoras to * go to to . . . 579

Bemarchius - do - to to a . . . 580

The Emperor Julian - - so - 361 581

'THE

CRET) IBILITY

OF THE

G O S P E L H IS TO R. Y,

THE PRINCIPAL FACTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
CONFIRMED BY PASSAGES OF ANCIENT AUTHORS,
WHO WERE CONTEMPORARY WITH OUR SA=
VIOUR, OR HIS APOSTLES, OR LIVED
NEAR THEIR TIME.

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