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Jezreel, Zabulon, Nazareth, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Hazor, Damascus, Tyre, and Sidon. What places at an early period changed their names? and what were those names?

Why was the land of Canaan so called? Who settled in that land after the confusion of Babel? How was the country divided?

it any other name ?

Why was the Land of Promise so called? Had Whence is Palestine derived? What are the boundaries of the Land promised to Abraham?

What does "from Dan to Beersheba," denote ?

Into how many regions was the Holy Land divided in the time of our Saviour? Which region was the most distinguished? and why?

Give an account of Judæa, Samaria, Galilee, and Peræa.

Give a history of Jerusalem. Name the hills upon which it was built.

Mention the principal rivers, lakes, and seas, in Palestine.

Where were the fountain of Siloam, the Kedron, and Jacob's well situated?

Give a short account of Lebanon, and the names of the other principal mountains in the Holy Land. Mention a few of the valleys.

What is meant by "the region" round about Jordan?

For what was the plain of Jericho celebrated? Where was the Valley of Salt situated? Did any remarkable defeat take place there?

Give short histories of Nineveh, Babylon, Tyre,

and Egypt.

Where was the valley of Jehoshaphat?

Where was Shiloh? where Mizpah? What circumstances were connected with them?

Where was probably the potter's field?

What was peculiar to the hills of Gareb and Goah?

What was their situation with respect to Jerusalem?

MISCELLANEOUS.

As Christ did not come according to Jewish expectations, prove wherein the Jews erred, and that he came conformably to the true sense of the Scrip

tures.

What passage in the Old Testament has been conceived to have had prophetic reference to Joseph of Arimathæa? and on what grounds?

What became of Jehoiakin, or Jechoniah, after his arrival in Babylon? How do you reconcile Jeremiah's prophecy, that he should be childless, with St. Matthew's mention of him among the ancestors of Christ?

What prediction of Micah saved the life of Jeremiah?

How do you explain Christ riding on an ass, AND upon a colt, the foal of an ass? How should ↑ and kai be translated? Was the ass appropriated to carry dignified persons?

Did the Jews express a belief, that ancient prophecies were fulfilled, when they cried Hosanna! and called Christ the Son of David-Him, who comes in the name of the Lord?

Show the minute manner in which Zechariah's prophecy of the crucifixion was fulfilled: what Psalm also refers to the event?

Wherein did the particulars of Christ's crucifixion differ from ordinary crucifixions? Was that difference foretold by the Prophets?

The Jews had ideas of the resurrection in the time of our Saviour: wherein then consisted their difficulty in believing the resurrection of Christ?

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What was the difference between their notions of a resurrection, and the doctrine of Christ? By this difference explain his words, "I am the resurrection and the life."

PALEY'S EVIDENCES.

Show from the nature of the case, that the propagation of Christianity must have been attended

with difficulty and danger, as addressed to the Jews and the heathens.

Adduce the testimony of heathen writers, to prove that the founder of Christianity was put to death, and that its first propagators were exposed to sufferings and dangers.

What is Paley's first proposition? Give a general view of the line of argument he takes to establish it. Give a brief account of St. Paul's first and second journeys.

Show that the religion, for which the early propagators of Christianity suffered, must have been miraculous.

Prove that the Scriptures are not of modern contrivance.

Show, by quotations, the candour of the writers of the New Testament.

Mention the most remarkable prophecies adduced by Paley, both as to the Old and New Testaments, in support of the truth of Christianity; and show that these prophecies must have been written before the events to which they refer.

Answer the objection against Christianity, raised from the "discrepancies of the Gospel." Whence does a great part of this "discrepancy" arise?

Show in what the originality of our Saviour's character consists.

How does Paley account for the rejection of

Christianity by the Jews, notwithstanding they were witnesses of the miracles which our Saviour performed?

What is there peculiar in the negative character of our Lord's discourses?

Who was the first apologist for Christianity?

Show that the success of Mohammedanism furnishes no good argument against the truth of Christianity.

Show the difference between an authentic and genuine book.

What are tentative miracles? Give instances.

Show the objections to those miracles, which are said to have been wrought at the tomb of the Abbé Paris.

Mention the main doctrines of Christianity, and show that they could not be a work of mere human invention.

Explain Luke ii. 2.

How do you show that the non-universality of Christianity is no just ground of objection to its being a Divine revelation?

Prove the genuineness and authenticity of the New Testament.

What two high priests are mentioned by the Evangelists, and how do you account for there being two?

Give an account of the "undesigned coinci

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