Acerca de este libro
Mi biblioteca
Libros en Google Play
THE
CONTENTS.
THE Prefatory Discourse..
The Introduction and Scheme.
CHAP. I.
A short view of the facts contained in the History of the Acts,
with some natural reflections thence arising
CHAP. II.
What is written in the History of the Acts of the ordinary
occurrences of that time, and of the great persons therein
named, confirmed from other authors
CHAP. III.
A further account of the occurrences of the time, and of the
persons named ....
CHAP. IV.
How far the various distinctions of the Jews, which happen to
be spoken of in the Acts, are confimed by other authors....
CHAP. V.
PAGE
I
II
21
28
38
56
How far the Jewish customs referred to are confirmed
70
CHAP. VI.
PART I.
The Jewish magistrates in Judæa, when under the Romans,
had the power of inflicting capital punishments. .
The Introduction to this....
83
SECT. I. An answer to the first argument against it,
taken from the civil law. . . .
85
SECT. II. The second and third arguments, taken from
the civil law, answered
91
SECT. III. The principal argument, taken from the New
Testament, answered
95
SECT. IV. An answer to two other arguments taken
from the New Testament
104
SECT. V. The Romans frequently indulged the nations
they conquered in the use of their own laws even in capital
106
....
cases
SECT. VI. The Romans were peculiarly favourable to the
Jews, and allowed them singular privileges in all parts of
the empire ..
SECT. VII. The Jews petitioned the emperor Augustus
that their country might be made a Roman province, with
this view, that they might have the free use of their own
laws...
119
123
SECT. VIII. The reasons we have to believe that the
emperor Augustus granted to the Jews what they had in
view in this petition
126
SECT. IX. Passages from Josephus and Philo, proving
that the Romans did grant to the Jews the execution of
their own laws even in capital cases
130
SECT. X. Objections answered
134
SECT. XI. Other passages from Josephus, proving that
the Jewish magistrates had the power of putting persons to
death in the execution of their own laws. ..
139
SECT. XII. Passages from the Talmud to the same pur-
pose, and the Talmudical account very consistent with the
History of Josephus.
SECT. XIII. An argument of another nature, rendering
it highly probable that the Jewish magistrates under the
Romans had the execution of their own laws in capital
cases.
SECT. XIV. Arguments taken from the sacred writings
to prove the same thing. . . . .
145
149
151
SECT. XV. Further arguments from the History of the
Acts...
154
SECT. XVI. Arguments to the same purpose from the
Gospels
158
SECT. XVII. Further arguments from the Gospels...
163
PART II.
The authority of the high priest and Jewish magistrates in the
affairs of religion extended to foreign cities
CHAP. VII.
More Jewish customs confirmed.
168
176
The History of the Acts written by St. Luke.
CHAP. XV.
The Acts of the Apostles was owned and received by the
Christians of the first ages as a sacred book . . .
CHAP. XVI.
A brief recapitulation of the things said in the foregoing
chapter, together with the evidence thence arising of the
truth and certainty of the principal matters related in the
Acts..
CHAP. XVII.
The evidence of the truth of Christianity arising from the
principal facts related....
CHAP. XVIII.
308
326
343
365
The objections raised by rabbi Isaac ben Abraham answered.. 384