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REV. RICHARD GRAVES, B. D. M. R. I. A.

AND JUNIOR FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,

"Paul faid, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak the
" words of truth and foberness. -Acts xxv. 26.

PRINTED, FOR C. DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.

M.DCC.XCVIII,

Entered at Stationers' hall.

The apostles and evangelists were not enthusiasts, because they did not

embrace the faith which they taught, till they had required and received

fufficient proofs of its divine original.

SECT. I. The general statement and division of the fubject. Page 1

SECT. II. The faith of the apostles in their Lord, at its first origin

and progress, was founded not on the delusions of enthusiasm, but on

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, confidered 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 enthusiasm.

SECT. V. The apostles belief in our Lord's refurrection, and in the

fubfequent manifestation of his divine power, was not imputable to en-

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thufiafm.

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Containing arguments to prove that the apostles were not enthusiasts, from

their not requiring faith in others without fupplying fufficient evidence

to justify it.

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SECT. I. The apostles converted men not by enthusiastic delufions,

but by working public and indisputable MIRACLES.

SECT. II. The arguments from PROPHECY adduced by the apostles

could not derive their weight from the influence of enthusiafm-proved

in this fection, fo far as relates to the Prophecies of the Old Tefta-

ment, which the apostles afferted were accomplished in the person of

our Saviour.

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SECT. III. The prophecies delivered by our Saviour, and fuch

predictions of the apofiles as are connected with them, are not imputa-

ble to enthusiasm.

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SECT. IV. The MODE in which the apostles proposed the evidence

of Chriftianity was free from enthusiasm.

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The CONDUCT of the apostles, shewn to be inconfiftent with the fuppofi-
tion of their having been enthusiasts.

SECT. I. The general conduct of the apostles in their private capa-

city, inconfiftent 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 enthusiasm.

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