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THE

AUTHENTICITY,

UNCORRUPTED PRESERVATION,

AND

CREDIBILITY

OF THE

NEW TESTAMENT.

BY

GODFREY LESS,

LATE PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGÉN, &c.

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PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, No. 62, st. PAUL'S
CHURCH-YARD; J. HATCHARD, NO. 190, PICCADILLY;
DEIGHTON, AND NICHOLSON, CAMBRIDGE; AND COOKE,
HANWELL, AND PARKER, OXFORD;

By Bye and Law, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell.

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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

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