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—THEGOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,ST.ACCORDING TOLUKE.CHAPTER I.Sect. I.St Luke's Preface." 1. Forasmuch as many have taken in hand toset forth in order a declaration of those things whichare most surely beUeved among us, 2. Even asthey delivered them unto us, which from the beginningwere eye-witnesses, and ministers of the word;"It is a very great proof of the truth of religion,and of the certainty of those things which the evangelistsrelate, that they were written by a great numberof historians, without support, pretensions, combination,or human talents; that they were writtenwhilst they were all fresh, in the midst of the mostviolent opposition of the Jews against the gospel, andyet no one at that time writing any thing to the contrary; that they were written without any heat, invectives,or bitterness, though they are no other thanthe history of the most unjust and cruel persecution,and even death of their Master; that they were taken

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