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Excerpt from The New Testament Scriptures: Their Claims, History, and Authority; Being the Croall Lectures for 1882
The following Lectures are printed as theyfiwere delivered. They are an attempt to answer ques tions which are often put as to the claims of the Christian Scriptures on the Christian believer's acceptance. 1 have endeavoured to divest the sub ject of technicality, and to write for those who are unable or who have not leisure to study the copious literature of the subject. The references to books are almost all to such as are easily accessible. In treating of the early witnesses to the claims and the authority of the books of the New Testament, I have necessarily made statements without being able to adduce the evidence in detail. Instead of defending or illustrating such general statements in N otes at the end of the volume, as is usually done in published lectures, I have ventured in footnotes to refer to the evidence which I have already corn piled for students in a recently published work, entitled Canonicity. In so far as concerns the history of the New Testament Canon, these Lectures may serve as a popular guide to the results of an examination of the testimonies arranged in that book. Many friends and critics have suggested the preparation of such a guide, and I shall be glad if this meet their wishes.
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