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This volume aims to exhibit the evidences of Christianity in a clear and comprehensive view, and in the order best adapted to produce conviction in common minds. It directs the first and chief attention to the Bible, investigates its character, and obtains proof of its divine origin, first from obvious and well-known facts, and afterwards from less accessible sources of information.

Many able writers on the subject give the first and chief place to the historical evidences, and regard the other evidences as merely subsidiary. The historical evidences require for their full development a laborious search into the records and monuments of antiquity. Few men have the opportunity and ability to perform this labor. Hence the student of the evidences feels com- 1