BY JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL. D. F. R. S. &c. SI juxta apostolum Paulum Christus Dei virtus est, noratio Christi est. -JEROME IN ESAIAM NORTHUMBERLAND : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY ANDREW KENNEDY, Franklin's Head, QUEEN-STREET, NOTES ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS. CHAPTER I. HAVING gone over the historical books of the New Testament, I proceed to the confideration of the Epistles, which are a very useful part of the Canon of Scripture, the certainly of much less confequence than the others. The certain knowledge that Jesus Christ was commissioned by God to preach the great doctrine of a refurrection to a future life, that he confirmed this doctrine by the best attested miracles, and that, in the farther confirmation and exemplification of it, he himself submitted to die, and actually rose from the dead, which we learn from the four gospels, is all that is essential to christianity; as the knowledge of this is all that is of much importance as a motive to a good life. However, we are much confirmed in our belief of the history of Christ by the farther account of the first promulgation of the gospel by the Apostles, and the miracles which they wrought in confirmation of |