THE AUTHENTICITY, UNCORRUPTED PRESERVATION, AND CREDIBILITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. BY GODFREY LESS, LATE PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGÉN, &c. PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, No. 62, st. PAUL'S By Bye and Law, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. RI TY TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. THE fubject of the work now offered to the public in an English translation is an examination of the following questions: Whether the books of the New Teftament were really written by the perfons to whom they are ascribed; Whether they have defcended to us perfectly uncorrupted in all effential matters, as they left the hands of their authors; And, lastly, Whether they contain a narration of events which did actually take place. That this inquiry is of the greatest confequence, and demands our most impartial attention, will be evident from thefe confiderations:-That if we cannot answer the above queftions in the affirmative, then is the Chriftian Religion a cunningly devised fable:-but, on the contrary, if in refult of the examination, it fhould be found that the New Teftament is both genuine and authentic,-then it will a 2 |