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Simon's fabulous combat with St Peter
A forged Sibylline oracle cited in the Constitutions
167
Page
An emendation of a fault in it
The apostolical canons considered
178
179
180-183
The Sibylline oracles examined, and rejected as for-
geries and impostures
183-209
185-187
ty
187-192
Homer's prophecy concerning Æneas and his posteri-
Virgil's fourth Eclogue considered
Fabricius, his account of the Sibylline oracles
Orphic verses, and fragments of Greek poets, &c.
which are cited by the fathers, examined and correc-
ted
187
192-209
Eusebius not to be charged with defending the Sibyl-
line oracles
Justin Martyr not the forger of them
Sibylline oracles which were made by Pagans
Barnabas. The antiquity and the dubious authority
of the epistle ascribed to him
Some remarks on Clemens Romanus
On Hermas and Polycarp
The Recognitions of Clemens a wretched romance.
A passage in them explained
201
204
207-209
209-212
213
214
215, 216
The Epistle to Diognetus the work of an uncertain
and inconsiderable writer
Ignatius. Remarks on his epiftles and his martyrdom 223-233
Notions of Van Dale and Le Clerc concerning them 247
a 2
The opinion that God alone can work miracles, not
probable
The miracles of our Saviour and of his Apostles de- fended
Quadratus, his testimony concerning miracles
A passage in Tertullian corrected
and represented future events.
248
349-264
250
251
The miracles of Christ were of a prophetic nature,
256-264
263
262
One of St Paul's miracles of the same kind
Difference between the writers of the N. T. and the
writers of Legends
Reasons for which our Saviour cast out evil spirits 256
Remarks on the Dæmoniacs
161
St Paul, an emblem perhaps of the Jewish nation 263
An answer to the objection made from the miracles of
false Christs
264-266
The Apostles seem to have wrought miracles only
when they were moved by the Holy Spirit
Recapitulation of the arguments in behalf of Chris-
tianity
267
267-270
General remarks on the miracles said to have been
wrought after the Apostolical days, in the second
and third centuries
271-286
These miracles not to be compared, in point of evidence,
with the miracles of Christ and the Apostles
The arguments which may be alledged in favour of
them
Objections which may be made to them
Some of them not improbable
Constancy of the martyrs may be ascribed to a divine
271
273
274
276
assistance
The doctrine of a particular providence maintained by
Woolaston and Le Clerc
277-281
The miracles after Constantine deserve no credit
Van Dale, Moyle, and Le Clerc; their notions of the
miracles after the days of the apostles
Middleton not singular in rejecting these miracles
281
282-285
282
Le
287
288-295
Justin M. of opinion that miraculous gifts had been
continued down to his time
St John; his being put in a vessel of boiling oil a du-
bious story
Whence it might arise
290
290, 291
291
Oil not used in baptism till after the days of Justin 291
Tertullian very credulous
His character
Papias an injudicious man. Whether an Ebionite
The epistle of Tiberianus to Trajan a forgery
Le Clerc's character of Van Dale and Moyle
The Christian miracles of different ages: how far
284
The Ethopians instructed by the Eunuch
Miracles wrought by apostolical men
292
294
293
Remarks on the apologists and their writings.
Quadratus, Aristides, Athenagoras, Melito
Christians not forbidden to read certain books
293-300
293, 294
295
The apologies seen in all probability by some emper-
ors, and serviceable to the Christian cause
The character of Adrian
The account which he gives of the Egyptians
His rescript to Minucius
Aquila. The account given of him by Epiphanius 300
Fabulous miracles related by Epiphanius
Polycarp. Remarks on his martyrdom, &c.
The epistle of the church of Smyrna probably genuine,
303-322
Polycarp's reply to the Proconsul not blameable
The city of Smyrna ruined by an earthquake
Polycarp's age
His martyrdom well attested
319
320
321
322
The constancy of the martyrs to be ascribed to a di-
vine assistance
322-331
The constancy of persons who were, or were called,
heretics
325
Mark of Arethusa his sufferings, and the remarks of
His account of the statue of Simon seems to be a mis-
take
337
Obscure
Obscure and worthless men deified by the Pagans even
in his time
2
Authority of the fathers. It is better to defer too lit-
339
340
349
341
341-344
342
344
345-349
346
Alcibiades, the martyr, reproved for an erroneous no-
tion
The story of the Thundering Legion improbable
Marcus Aurelius, no friend to the Christians
Forged re-cripts in favour of Christianity
The martyrdom of Apolonius
Roman Senate not favourable to Christianity
Remarks on Lucian, Apuleius, Porphyry, and the Pla-
tonic philosophers
Lucian not an apostate
State of the Christians in the reign of Commodus
The Montanists
352
252
Tertullian
Proculus is said to have cured Severus with oil. Facts
relating to that story
Severus, his behaviour towards the Christians.
Rutilius the martyr. His prudent and pious beha-
viour
357
Theophilus
354-357
356