The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, Volum 4

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T. Bensley, 1815

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Leucius is thought to have interpolated the Gospel of the infancy
14
He was the forger of the Gospel of Nicodemus
15
Two other Gospels ascribed to Leucius
16
Of the traditions of Matthias It is rather uncertain what they were
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Leucius was the author of the forged Acts or Journeying of the apostles
18
Some account of the contents of this book
19
These forgeries prove the truth of the canonical scriptures
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XI
43
CHAPTER XII
50
OF APELLES PAGE
55
631
60
XV
68
Apuleius of Madaura in Africa
107
Passages concerning the progress of the Christian religion
134
Remarks upon the Work of Celsus against the Christians
141
Lucian of Samosata
149
Ælius Aristides the Sophist and Dion Chrysostom
156
Conclusion of the second century
162
XXV
177
The persecution of Maximin the First or the Thracian
186
Chap XXX
191
633
232
Two authors who wrote against the Christians in the time of Dioclesians
252
XL
271
as they are said to have been 572
292
XLV
310
XLVII
321
Himerius
349
XLIX
355
L
369
LII
380
LIV
388
LVI
394
LIX
416
LXIII
427
The State of Gentilism under Christian Emperors
435
Rome besieged taken and sacked by Alaric the Goth in the year 410
481
The Correspondence between the people of Madaura and Augustine time uncertain
493
Most Heresies of the two first centuries may be reduced to two kinds
511
They made great use of the scriptures
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200
522
BOOK THE SECOND
533
He believed that the soul only would be saved
540
SPOT PAGE
546
202
550
From hence came the superstitious custom of writing Abrasadabra as a charm
552
Of the principles of the Carpocratians concerning the creation
558
OF CERINTHUS
564
An account of what scriptures he received
570
They are accused of believing the uselessness of prayer
573
From the arguments used against them by Clement it appears that they respected Christ and the scriptures
574
OF THE ADAMIANS OR ADAMITES 1 The account of these people from Epiphanius and Austin
575
An objection taken from the practice of the Gnostics and answers
576
OF MARC AND HIS FOLLOWERS CALLED MARCOSIANS 1 Of his time his country and the sect from which he sprang
577
He is accused of being a magician
578
Some observations upon these accusations
579
They are unjustly accused of holding two principles and being Doceta ib 7 They continued in the practice of Baptism and the Eucharist
580
They believed the facts recorded in the gospels
581
They received the scriptures both of the Old and New Testament
582
OF HERACLEON 1 Ancient writers who speak of him and of the time when he lived
583
He was a follower of Valentinus with whose opinions his sentiments nearly corresponded
584
Commentaries were written by him on several parts of scripture ib 4 Containing remarks on the foregoing passages particularly concerning what part...
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OF CERDON 1 Of his time
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He was an admirer of virginity and is said to have recanted his errors
587
What scriptures were received by him
588
Of the time in which he lived
589
They thought the soul but not the bodies of the virtuous would be happy in a future state
599
The belief of a transmigration ascribed to them by Epiphanius
600
Some account of their notion that Christ delivered the wicked but left the good ib 19 Marcions opinion of the person of Christ that he was not a real ...
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Tertullians arguments against this notion
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Marcion believed there were to be two Christs
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He allowed the truth of our Saviours miracles ib 23 And of his death
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And of the principal facts related concerning him
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The manners of the Marcionites were virtuous and they had many martyrs
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They fasted on the Sabbath
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They celebrated Baptism and the Eucharist but were somewliat irregular in the administration ib 30 They had churches for stated public worship
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Marcion whoily rejected the Old Testament ib 32 He also objected to the appointment of sacrifices
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He framed antitheses to shew the opposition of the law to the gospel
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Marcion received but eleven books of the New Testament and of the gospels only that of St Luke and this mutilated
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He also rejected the history of the temptation
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An account of many other alterations inade by him in St Lukes gospel
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There is a sufficient number of texts remaining to confute his errors
616
Marcion rejected the Acts of the apostles
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And received only ten epistles of St Paul and most of these altered
618
In the first epistle to the Corinthians
619
In the second epistle to the Corinthians
620
In the first epistle to the Thessalonians
621
In the epistle to the Ephesians called by him the epistle to the Laodiceans
622
He probably did not much alter the epistle to the Colossians
623
Nor at all that to Philemon
624
CHAPTER XI
625
Of the time when he lived
627
Some observations on his notion about the souls of brutes and the resurrection of them
628
A belief in another kind of resurrection ascribed to him by Tertullian
629
Some observations on the assertion of Mr Jones that Leucius was a Manichec
630
His History
639
Of the time when he lived 2 Of his connection with Philumene 3 No foundation for the story of his incontinence
640
Unjustly accused of discouraging inquiry
641
Of his Writings 639 640 ib 641 642 6 His country uncertain ib PART II His peculiar Principles
642
He denied the resurrection of the body 187 ib 643 ib
644
What scriptures he received 11 In other matters he generally agreed with Marcion 12 He did not pay any great regard to the Old Testament
645
His sentiments about the New Testament probably not very different from Marcions 14 It is likely he rejected the beginning of St Matthews gospel as...
646
ib ib OF THE SETHIANS 3 They called themselves the descendants of Seth 1 Some general observations concerning these Heretics and the Ophites a...
648
They ascribed the creation of the world to angels 649 6 They believed that Jesus Christ descended from Seth in an extraordinary way
649
By Christ who descended upon Jesus they probably meant the Holy Ghost S An account of what books they used 650
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What scriptures they received
651
OF THE CAIANS OR CAINITES 1 Some account of the accusations brought against them from Epiphanius and Irenæus 2 Observations tending to s...
652
CHAPTER XVI
657
CHAPTER XVIII
663
Ancient writers who speak of the Montanists
669
SECT PAGE 5 Of his companions and assistants and of their prophecies
670
Of his pretensions and manner of prophesying
671
Of the opinions of the Montanists
672
Of some peculiarities in their manners discipline and doctrine
673
Of their mysteries and some calumnies cast upon them on that account
674
of their testimony to the scriptures
675
CHAPTER XX
676
He suffered in the cause of Christ
677
A strenuous assertor of the divine unity
678
He received both the Old and New Testament gospels and epistles
679
He founded his arguments upon a great variety of passages both in the Old and New Testament
680
OF JULIUS CASSIANUS 1 Of his time
681
In his writings he argued from the Old as well as from the New Testament ib 3 Of his opinions country and philosophical speculations
682
They were mentioned and written against by Origen
683
Of the Ossens who were the same with the Elcesaites called also Sampsæans and of their time and opinions
684
of the name of the founder of this sect and of several authors who mention him
686
of the time when he flourished according to modern authors
687
Of the duration of this sect
688
What parts of scripture they received
689
CHAPTER XXIII
690
There never was any such Heresy 694
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A groundless opinion among the moderns concerning the Unitarians of the second century
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Pàgina 8 - Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me : for he was before me.
Pàgina 232 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Pàgina 201 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Pàgina 5 - These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Pàgina 220 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people : and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time : and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Pàgina 294 - As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Pàgina 125 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak ; for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Pàgina 132 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Pàgina 225 - Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another ; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
Pàgina 501 - And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

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