 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 442 pages
...there are more and larger quotations of the fmall volume of the New Teftament in this one Chriftian author, than there are of all the works of Cicero, in writers of all characters, for. feveral ages." , „3 AD 178, Irenseus was bifliop of Lyons, and isOflrenxus/ mentioned by Tertullian,... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1800 - 418 pages
...there are more, and larger, quotations of the fmall volume of the New Teftament in this one Chriftian author, than there are of all the •works of Cicero in writers of alt charadeirs for feverai ages*." Tertullian quotes no Chriftian Writing as • of. equal authority... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1803 - 334 pages
...there are more, and larger .quotations of the fmall volume of the New Teftament in this one Chriftian author, than there are of all the works of Cicero in writers of all characters for feveral ages."1 Tertullian quotes no Chriftian writing as of equal authority -with the fcriptures,... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 436 pages
...particular quotations. These, however, are so numerous and ample, as to have led Dr. Lardner to observe, " that there are more and larger quotations of the small...Cicero in writers of all characters for several ages."* Tertullian quotes no Christian writing as of equal authority with the scriptures, and no spurious book... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 406 pages
...said of our received Scriptures, " that in the works of three only of the above-mentioned fathers, there are more and larger quotations of the small volume of the New Testament, than of all the works of Cicero in the writers of all characters for several ages ;" and if with the... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 388 pages
...works of Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian, who all lived in the first two centuries, there are more and larger quotations of the small volume of the New Testament, than of all the works of Cicero, by writers of all characters, for several ages-j-;" * In applying... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1812 - 586 pages
...said of our received scriptures, " that in the works of three only of the above mentioned fathers, there are more and larger quotations of the small volume of the New Testament, than of all the works of Cicero in the writers of all characters for several ages ;" and if, with the... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...said of our received scrfpturcs, " that in the works of three only of the above-mentioned fa" thers, there are more and larger quotations of the small volume of the New * Testament, than of all the works of Cicero in the writers of all characters for * icveral ag-.s ;" and if, with... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1814 - 558 pages
...said <it our received scriptures, " that in Uie works of three only of tlie above-mentioned fa" thers, there are more and larger quotations of the small volume of the New " Testament, than of all llie works of Cicero in the writers of all characters for " several ages ;" and if, with... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 644 pages
...all his epistles, which we lonians. have ; and that they were written before the catholic epistlei. more and larger quotations of the small volume of the New Testament, than of all the works of Cicero, though of so uncommon excellence for thought and style, in the writers... | |
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that there are more, and larger quotations of the small volume of the New Testament in this one Christian author, than there are of all the works of Cicero in writers of all characters for several ages... 
