RSERVATIONS ON THE PECULIAR POINTS OF THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE. BY ISAAC TAYLOR. = VERI SCIENTIA VINDEX. LONDON: PRINTED FOR B. J. HOLDSWORTH, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, PREFACE. THERE are some subjects that belong by equal right to different and independent departments of knowledge. The Christian Evidences are of this kind; for while they form an inseparable branch of theological study, they are manifestly included also in the province of general history. He, therefore, who devotes himself to the knowledge of whatever relates to the past condition of mankind, is free to examine these evidencesnay, he is bound to examine them-apart from their connection with religion. This is the ground on which I present the following pages to the reader. After exemplifying, in a signal instance, the ordinary process of historical proof, I have endeavoured to suggest |