The Eclectic Review. Vol. 1-New [8th] (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: adequate to establish the credibility of a single miraculous fact. The pupil is next instructed to read the New Testament in the same spirit, with the assistance of the apocryphal gospels, and of the infidel publications transmitted to him. It is then added: ' Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it ends in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise, and the love of others which it will procure you. If you find reason to believe there is a God, a consciousness that you are acting under his eye, and that he approves you, will be a vast additional excitement, '