IN DIVINITY DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, BY JOHN HEY, D. D. AS NORRISIAN PROFESSOR FROM 1780 To 1795. SECOND EDITION. VOLUME THE THIRD. (FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1797.) CAMBRIDGE: Printed by J. Smith, Printer to the University; AND SOLD BY MESSRS. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON; AND DEIGHTON & SONS, CAMBRIDGE. ERRATA in VOL. III. P. 45. Prefix to last note, mark of reference ! 60. 1. 11. for έναντίωσις read ἐναντίωσις 1. 12. for παλαιὸν read παλαιόν 67. note, 1. 10. before Rom. iii. 21. insert Acts xxvi. 6. 96. note f, read "The famous 109. 1. 13. for it read if 134. running title, dele Sect. 1. 160. note, for Birth read Birth.' 161. 1. 1. for handling read handing 188. 1. 15. upwards, read description: 195. 1. 20. for μαχαναι read μαχαναὶ and for βροτεάις, βροτέαις 465. 1. 4. from bottom, after 1 Cor. xiv. 9; insert (see Sect. 18.) LECTURES IN DIVINITY, &c. BOOK IV. CONTINUATION OF ARTICLE VI. SECT. XVI. LET us then endeavour to put ourselves in the place of early Christians, and see how writings, circumstanced as these Catholic Epistles were, might be authentic, and yet not at once universally received. 1. First, take a geographical view of the countries, in which Christianity was professed in the fourth Century: examine the extent of the Eastern and Western Church, and you will readily admit, that a writing • In Bingham's Antiquities, Bool. ix. we have ecclesiastical maps; particularly of the three Patriarchates, of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem; nor can it be difficult, in any book of Geography, to trace out the extent of the See of Rome, by the directions of ecclesiastical history, at any period: or that of any of the European Churches. Indeed Bingham might suffice for the present purpose. VOL. III. A |