PRINCIPLES

OF

CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE

ILLUSTRATED.

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

Aratus.

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

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

Tertullian.

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