PRINCIPLES

OF

CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE

ILLUSTRATED.

Printed by John Moir, Edinburgh, 1818.

PRINCIPLES

OF

CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE

ILLUSTRATED,

BY AN EXAMINATION OF ARGUMENTS
SUBVERSIVE OF NATURAL THEOLOGY AND THE
INTERNAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY,

ADVANCED BY DR T. CHALMERS, IN HIS

"EVIDENCE AND AUTHORITY OF THE
"CHRISTIAN REVELATION."

BY DUNCAN MEARNS, D. D.

PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN KING'S COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY, ABERDEEN.

Του

πάντη δὲ Διὸς κεχρήμεθα πάντες

yag καὶ γένος ἐσμεν, ὅ δ' ήπιος ἀνθρώποισι
Δεξιά σημαίνει.

Aratus.

Operibus præscripsit Deus antequam literis: viribus prædicavit antequam
vocibus. Præmisit tibi naturam magistram, submissurus et Prophetiam, que
facilius credas Prophetiæ, dicipulus naturæ: quo stau dmittas, quod ubique
jam videris.
ertullian.

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