The doubting clerk. The unexpected letter. The sick child.
Porsible mistakes. Men act from reasonable evidence. Evi-
dences of Christianity, historical, internal, and experimental.
Illustration. The phosphorus.
1. Historical Evidence. Seal. Miracles. Examining witnesses.
The court. The court-room. The prisoner. His accusation
and trial. Testimony of the owner;-of the watchman. The
lawyer's question. The watchman's story. The prisoner con-
victed. Points secured on trials. Three points to be attended
to. Irruption of the barbarians. Old manuscripts. Ge-
nuineness of the Scriptures. Quotations. Illustration. Use
made of quotations. Paley's Evidences. Necessity for prov-
ing the genuineness of the Scriptures. The original records
not remaining. The second point. Opportunities of know-
ing. The house-breaker's trial. Sacred writers could not have
been mistaken. They were eye-witnesses. Third point. Their