TO THE RIGHT REVEREND JOHN LAW, D.D. LORD BISHOP OF KILLALA AND ACHONRY, AS A TESTIMONY OF ESTEEM FOR HIS VIRTUES AND LEARNING, AND OF GRATITUDE FOR THE LONG AND FAITHFUL FRIENDSHIP WITH WHICH THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN HONOURED BY HIM, THIS ATTEMPT TO CONFIRM THE EVIDENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN HISTORY IS INSCRIBED BY HIS AFFECTIONATE AND MOST OBLIGED SERVANT, W. PALEY. SECT. IV. Of applying spiritual remedies to the unreasonable fears and dejections of Considerations to be offered to persons SECT. V. Considerations against presumption The order for the visitation of the sick For a blessing on the means used for a sick person's For a sick person, when there appears some hope of For spiritual improvement by sickness For a sick person, who is about to make his will For a sick person, who intends to receive the blessed For a sick person who wants sleep ib. For a person lying insensible on a sick bed For one who hath been a notoriously wicked liver 278 For one who is hardened and impenitent For a sick woman that is with child For a woman in the time of her travail For grace and assistance for a woman after deli- A prayer for a person who, from a state of health, is suddenly seized with the symptoms of death 286 A commendatory prayer for a sick person at the A litany for a sick person at the time of departure ib. Form of recommending the soul to God in her de- 291 A consolatory form of devotion, that may be used A prayer for a person, whose illness is chiefly brought on him by some calamitous disaster or loss; as, of estate, relations, or friends, &c. For a person who, by any calamitous disaster, hath broken any of his bones, or is very much bruised For a person who is afflicted with grievous pains of For one who is troubled with acute pains of the gout, stone, colic, or any other bodily distemper 298 For a person who hath the small-pox, or any such- For a person troubled in mind or conscience For one under deep melancholy or dejection of spirit ib. Another prayer for the same A prayer for one under fears and doubts concern- ing his spiritual condition; or under perplexing thoughts and scruples about his duty... 304 For one who is disturbed with wicked and blasphe- For a person who is afflicted with a profane mistrust of divine truths, and blasphemous thoughts Other occasional Prayers; viz. THE TRUTH OF THE SCRIPTURE HISTORY OF ST. PAUL EVINCED. CHAP. I. Exposition of the argument. THE volume of Christian Scriptures contains thirteen letters purporting to be written by St. Paul; it contains also a book, which, amongst other things, professes to deliver the history, or rather memoirs of the history, of this same person. By assuming the genuineness of the letters, we may prove the substantial truth of the history; or, by assuming the truth of the history, we may argue strongly in support of the genuineness of the letters. But I assume neither one nor the other. The reader is at liberty to suppose these writings to have been lately discovered in the library of the Escurial, and to come to our hands destitute of any extrinsic or collateral evidence whatever; and the argument I am about to offer is calculated to shew, that a comparison of the different writings would, even under these circumstances, afford good reason to believe the persons and transactions to have been real, the letters authentic, and the narration in the main to be true. Agreement or conformity between letters bearing the name of an ancient author, and a received history of that author's life, does not necessarily establish the credit of either: because, 1. The history may, like Middleton's Life of Cicero, or Jortin's Life of Erasmus, have been wholly, or in part, compiled from the letters: in which case it is ma B |
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