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What was his object in performing miracles, and what were the effects?

What is meant by a person possessed by a Devil?

Why did our Saviour in some instances apply an external application, before He performed the cure?

Which were considered the greatest miracles of our Lord? Why so?

Wherein consisted the difference between the miracles performed by Christ, and those performed by Moses?

By what power did Christ perform miracles? Did He give the like power to any of his disciples?

What was our Lord's motive in speaking to the disciples in parables? Were they prophetic? Explain the parables of the sower, and the ten virgins?

Prove the three orders of the ministry from the New Testament.

What is meant by blasphemy? What by the sin against the Holy Ghost?

Why did the Jews desire a "sign from heaven?" Give the different significations of the word "hell" in the New Testament.

What is the meaning of the words "Thou sayest.' Give an account of the Jewish and Christian Sabbaths.

What do we commemorate by keeping our Sab

bath upon the first day of the week? When did the alteration take place?

What is the meaning of the word "tetrarch?"

How many Marys are mentioned in the Gospels? Give an account of them.

Give an account of our Saviour's entry into Jerusalem.

What did Christ uphold when He declared it to be lawful to pay tribute to Cæsar ?

Who was Judas? What became of him?

Is there any thing remarkable in the price for which Judas covenanted to betray Christ? Why was he called Iscariot?

When was the Eucharist instituted? Give an account of it?

What is meant by a Sacrament? Refute the doctrine of transubstantiation by Scripture.

At what tribunal was our Saviour brought? By whom was He condemned? Why was the death of crucifixion selected? What were the charges against our Saviour?

What type prefigured the rending of the veil of the temple?

What followed the crucifixion?

Who requested the body of Jesus? for what purpose?

Why were the legs of Christ not broken?

Prove the truth of the Resurrection by Scripture. Mention the prophecies and types that relate to it.

Does the truth of the Gospel depend upon the Resurrection?

Prove by Scripture Christ's identity.

What miracle did Christ perform after his Resurrection? And what other marks of his Divinity did He give?

Before whom did He ascend into heaven? And how long did He remain upon the earth between his resurrection and his ascension? From whence did He ascend? What type have we of the ascension? Who wrote the Acts of the Apostles?

What took place on the day of Pentecost? Who succeeded Judas? What power did the Apostles receive from the Holy Ghost? How did they manifest that power?

Who first suffered martyrdom? For what cause? When and where were the disciples first called Christians? Was it a term of reproach?

To what tribe did St. Paul belong? Give an account of his conversion.

Give an account of St. Paul's journeys.

Who was the first Gentile convert?

Where was the first Christian Church founded?

What Roman was converted to Christianity, in consequence of the miracle St. Paul performed at Paphos ?

Give an account of the difficulties and hardships St. Paul endured; and of the mode in which he obtained a release when brought to trial.

Where is St. Paul supposed to have travelled, between his release from imprisonment at Rome, and his death? What churches is he supposed to have founded?

What was the determination of the Apostles respecting circumcision?

Give an account of the people of Beræa respecting their reception of the Gospel.

What occurred to St. Paul at Athens, and at Ephesus?

What took place when St. Paul pleaded his cause before Ananias? What charge was brought against him?

What danger befel St. Paul in his voyage to Rome?

Trace the success of Christianity as recorded in the Scriptures, and especially in the Acts of the Apostles.

By whom is the Epistle to the Hebrews supposed to be written? and in what language? To what dialect has the Greek been referred?

What were the objects of the Epistles? who wrote that to Philemon?

How many Epistles did St. Paul write? How many did James, Peter, Jude, and John?

Why were some of the Epistles termed "Catholic," or "General?" Why are these sometimes called Encyclic?

Why was St. James, who wrote the Epistle, called

"the Less?" Whose son was he? Was he an Apostle? What are the objects of St. John's Epistles?

Who was Jude? what was his surname ?

Why was St. John called the Divine? In whose reign was the Apostle banished? On what island? For what cause? By whom? Did he ever return? What were the objects of his Revelation? Were they prophetical? If so, what prophecies have been accomplished? and what remain to be fulfilled? Define the word Apocalypse.

Prove the authenticity and genuineness of the Book. What became of St. John? What is the date of the Apocalypse? Did he suffer martyrdom, or die a natural death?

What was the effect of the circulation of the Septuagint? Was it, or the Hebrew text, quoted by the writers of the New Testament? How was it quoted?

In what manner have the Sibylline and Orphic verses been imagined to contain proofs, that the Septuagint version was known to their authors?

Show evidences of the expectation of a great personage among the Gentiles, about the time of Christ's advent.

What has become of the seven Churches of Asia?

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