A

SUMMARY

OF THE

PRINCIPAL EVIDENCES

FOR THE

TRUTH AND DIVINE ORIGIN

OF THE

CHRISTIAN REVELATION.

DESIGNED CHIEFLY

FOR THE USE OF YOUNG PERSONS;
More particularly of those who have lately been CONFIRMED in

THE DIOCESE OF LONDON.

BY BEILBY PORTEUS,

LORD BISHOP OF LONDON,

THE FIFTEENTH EDITION

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London:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND.

1820.

141. m. 292

Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, London.

PREFACE.

FOR Readers of a mature age and judgment, there are so many excellent Treatises on the Evidences of the Christian Religion already published, that it is perfectly needless to add to their number; but it appeared to me, that there was still wanting something in a shorter, a cheaper, a more methodical and familiar form, for those who have just received CoNFIRMATION. This seems to be the properest period for communicating to young people the chief grounds of their faith, and laying the foundations of a firm belief in the Christian Revelation; leaving it to themselves to add to these primary evidences which reason furnishes in favour of Christianity, those further proofs of its truth, which I trust they will hereafter derive from still higher and better