The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Vol. 2: Translated From the Original Greek; With Original Notes, Practical Observation We now enter upon the epistolary part of the New Testament, concerning which it may be profitable to make some previous remarks. The epistles are letters, written either to individuals, or to particular churches, or to several churches; or they are catholic epistles, that is, circular letters to the churches in general. It is supposed, that they were all written by one or other of the apostles; and, excepting the epistle to the Hebrews, and the epistles ascribed to John, each has the name of an apostle prefixed to it. The apostle Paul´s name is affixed to thirteen of them, and the epistle to the Hebrews has generally been ascribed to him: that of Peter to two; those of James, John, and Jude, to one, each. Now, if they were actually written by the apostles, what shadow of reason can there be in the opinion, which numbers maintain, that they are not to be considered as of equal authority with the Gospels? The Gospels, indeed, record the words and actions of Christ; but the human testimony, by which these words and actions were recorded, might even be thought inferior to that of the epistles, for neither Mark nor Luke were apostles; and we have as full proof that the epistles were divinely inspired, as that the Gospels were. Various reasons may be assigned, why many truths should be more obscurely delivered during our Lord´s ministry than afterwards, of which he gave several intimations: and where are we to look for the full and explicit declarations of- "the whole counsel of God," but in the writings of those whom the Lord Jesus selected as the depositaries of his truths; to whom he gave the keys of the kingdom of heaven; to whom he promised to give the Holy Spirit, "to teach them all things, and lead them into all truth;" and whom he sent, to make known his Gospel, even as the Father had sent him? If the doctrine of the apostles teas the unadulterated and entire truth of God, and altogether of divine authority, as they preached it, why should it not be so when they committed it to writing. and if it was not the unadulterated entire truth, but either redundant or defective, then Christianity u-as corrupted or mutilated, even from the first. It must also be observed, that it is impossible that we can know what the apostles preached, except from what they themselves wrote, or what others wrote concerning them: and can we suppose that their own writings are of less authority than the writings of others on the same subjects? If there be any ground for making this distinction between the Gospels and the apostolical writings, how is the Church "built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets?" ´Hence then it follows, that what the apostles have delivered in these epistles, as necessary to be believed or done by Christians, must be as necessary to be believed and practised in order to salvation, as what was personally taught by Christ himself, and is contained in the Gospels.´( hitby.) Most of the epistles, especially those of St. Paul, were written to the Churches, the planting of which is recorded in the Acts of the apostles; and the history so entirely tallies with them, even in the most minute particulars, and evidently without the least design or aim at coincidence, that the more carefully they are examined, and compared with the history, the more will it appear, that both are indisputably genuine. This has been shown clearly, by the learned Dr. Paley, in his Horæ Paulinæ; and I am decidedly of opinion, that all the genius, sagacity, and care of any number of the most able men, who ever lived, would be absolutely insufficient to forge a history, and a number of epistles, so manifestly frank, artless, and often immethodical; and yet to make the one so completely to confirm the other, f
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