The Works of Nathaniel Lardner Volume 1; Containing Credibility of the Gospel History, Jewish and Heathen Testimonies, History of Heretics, and His Sermons and Tracts with General Chronological Tables, and Copious Indexes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 Excerpt: ...from the Romans, but proceeded from a desire he had to throw off" from himself the odium of a vile action, namely setting fire to the city, which he was generally charged' with. And Sulpicius Severus, a christian historian of the fourth century, fays the fame thing. x Consulite commentaries redrew: illic greflus est. Sutpic. Set. Hist. I. n. M?reperii iis primuin Xeroncm in hanc sectam, y Ergo abolcndo rumori Nero subioi cum imxime Romae orienten), raesariano reos--Tacit. Ann. xv. c. 44. pladio serorifle. Tertul. Apol. cap. 5. u la re Nero efficiebat, cjuin ab eo Primus omnium persecutus Dei servos. incendium putarctur. Igitunreriit invilW" La.'rat.iins dc Morlib. perfecut. c. 2. Hie in Chrillianos, acbeque m innoxi crti priinU' Clirislianorum "omen tollere ag-liffiinx quxstioBes. Sulpic. ibid. c. 4. 6 ' ' adlf, adly, I answer, that if the reader will be at the pains of comparing the epistles of the New Testament with the history )f the Acts of the Apostles, he will find a perfect harmony in ill these particulars which are mentioned in both. Thus St. Paul writes to the Thessalonians, 1 Thess. ii. 14. Ye became follower', of the churches-which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrynen, even as they have of the Jews. And St. Luke informs us, cts xvii. 5. that at TheJJalonica, the Jews which believed noty, noved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser 'art, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproart md assaulted the house os Jason. As according to St. Luke, they were the Jews who usually jegan, or aggravated the disturbances against Paul; so Paul limself ascribes his own sufferings, and those of others likewise, to the Jews. Thus it follows in the .