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Le Clerc's character of Van Dale and Moyle

The Christian miracles of different ages: how far

credible, or not

The improbable story of Abgarus

The conversion of the inhabitants of Edessa

The Ethopians instructed by the Eunuch

Miracles wrought by apostolical men

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Justin M. of opinion that miraculous gifts had been continued down to his time

St John; his being put in a vessel of boiling oil a du

bious story

Whence it might arise

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290, 291

291

Oil not used in baptism till after the days of Justin 291

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Remarks on the apologists and their writings
Quadratus, Aristides, Athenagoras, Melito
Christians not forbidden to read certain books

293-300

293, 294

295

The apologies seen in all probability by some emperors, and serviceable to the Christian cause

The character of Adrian

The account which he gives of the Egyptians

His rescript to Minucius

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297

He was no enemy to the Christians

297

Severus Alexander a friend to the Christians

297

No images in Christian churches till after Constantine 298
The miserable state of the Jews under Adrian
Aquila. The account given of him by Epiphanius
Fabulous miracles related by Epiphanius

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Polycarp. Remarks on his martyrdom, &c.

The epistle of the church of Smyrna probably genuine,

tho' possibly interpolated

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Polycarp's reply to the Proconsul not blameable

The city of Smyrna ruined by an earthquake

Polycarp's age

His martyrdom well attested

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The constancy of the martyrs to be ascribed to a divine assistance

322-331

The constancy of persons who were, or were called,

heretics

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Mark of Arethusa his sufferings, and the remarks of
Tillemont upon them

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His account of the statue of Simon seems to be a mis

take

337

Obscure

Obscure and worthless men deified by the Pagans even

in his time

Authority of the fathers. It is better to defer too lit

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Alcibiades, the martyr, reproved for an erroneous no

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The martyrdom of Apolonius

Roman Senate not favourable to Christianity

Remarks on Lucian, Apuleius, Porphyry, and the Pla

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State of the Christians in the reign of Commodus
The Montanists

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Tertullian

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relating to that story

Proculus is said to have cured Severus with oil. Facts

Severus, his behaviour towards the Christians
Rutilius the martyr. His prudent and pious beha-

viour

357 Theophilus

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