PART I THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. BOOK I. Of the Internal Evidence. CHAP. I. The Neceffity of this Inquiry. THE faith of Chriftians is thus diftinguished from all the other religions of the world: it pronounces Jefus to be the Redeemer of men, promised by God, the only cause of their falvation, and afferts his doctrine to be undeniably true. Should there, then, never have exifted in the world a perfon, who, in the time of the Roman Emperour Auguftus, was born at Bethlehem of Mary, a Jewish virgin, and known |