THE

SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY

TO THE

MESSIAH:

AN

INQUIRY WITH A VIEW TO A SATISFACTORY DETERMINATION

OF THE

DOCTRINE TAUGHT IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

CONCERNING

THE PERSON OF CHRIST.

BY

JOHN PYE SMITH, D.D.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

"A Deo discendum est quid de Deo intelligendum sit: quia nonnisi se
auctore cognoscitur." HILARIUS.

THIRD EDITION,

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CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

BOOK IV.

ON THE DOCTRINE TAUGHT BY THE APOSTLES IN THEIR IN-

SPIRED MINISTRY, CONCERNING THE PERSON OF THE LORD

JESUS CHRIST.

INTRODUCTION

CHAP. I. On the Examples of the Apostolic Instruction con-

tained in the Book of Acts

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1

49

14.

PRINCIPAL NOTES.-On the Baptismal Formula; p.

On the scriptural Terms for Invocation; p. 32.—On the

Salvation in Acts iv. 12; p. 56.-On the Readings of

Acts xx. 28; p. 57.

CHAP. II. On the Testimony of the Apostle John.

Sect. 1. The Introduction to the Gospel of John

PRINCIPAL NOTES. - Admissions of the most learned

Neologists upon the Jewish Doctrine of the Word; pp.

71, 72, 113.—On the Design of the Gospel of John ;-

Paulus, Michaelis, Tittmann, De Wette, and Bertholdt;

p. 117.-Michaelis on the LoGoS; p. 122.

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Sect. 11. Information from the Epistles of John

PRINCIPAL NOTE.-On the disputed Passage in chap. v.

p. 126.

Sect. III. Evidence from the Book of the Revelation.

PRINCIPAL NOTES.-On John the Presbyter; p. 135.—On

the Genuineness and Authority of the Apocalypse;

Heinrichs, Ewald, Weyers, Bertholdt, Koppe; p. 172.—

On the Argument from Christ's receiving but not paying

Divine Honour; Dwight; p. 177.

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123

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CHAP. III. The Testimonies of the Apostles Peter, Jude, and

James

PRINCIPAL NOTE. On the Authority of 2 Ep. Peter;

p. 188.

CHAP. IV. The Testimony of the Apostle Paul

PRINCIPAL NOTES.-Lessing's Opinion upon Orthodox and

Heterodox Christianity; p. 217.- On Adjuration by

Christ; p. 242.-The Apostle's Prayer compared with the

Prayers in the Old Testament; p. 252.-On the Dignity of

Christ; p. 270.-Koppe, Knapp, and Glöckler, on Rom.

i. 4; p. 290.-On Rom. viii. 31; p. 291.-On the Use of

the Greek Article; pp. 317, 319.-Rosenmüller, Scheibel,

and others, on Rom. ix. 5; p. 304.—On the Phrase, to sit at

the right hand; p. 337.-The Antisupranaturalist Impiety,

and its Tendency; p. 338.-Rammohun Roy; p. 340.—

Pantheism; p. 342.-Gesenius and Michaelis on Isaiah

xxviii. 16; p. 344.—On Joel ii. 28—32; p. 345.-Seiler

on Col. ii. 9; p. 346.-On the References of the Christian

Fathers to Rom. ix. ; ibid.-Michaelis on that Passage,

and generally on the Denial of the Deity of Christ;

p. 350.-On 1 Tim. iii. 16; p. 354.- Dr. Burton's

Elucidations; ibid.-Dr. Henderson and Prof. Stuart;

p. 356. Scholz; p. 357.-Pott on the Appellation, LORD;

178

206

p. 362.-Wegscheider's Statement of the Antisuper-

naturalist Theology; p. 364.-Heinroth on the Harmony

with all Moral Science, of the Doctrine of a Redeemer;

p. 365.

Recapitulation of the Evidence contained in the Apostolic

Epistles

General REVIEW and CONCLUSION

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. 366

373

APPENDIXES.

I.

Mosheim on the Source of Prejudices against Christian

Doctrines

. . 386

II.

Seiler on the Mode in which the Human Mind acquires

its Knowledge of God

390

III. On the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit

408

IV. On the Doctrine of the Trinity.

416

V.

On the supposed Unitarianism of the Majority of the

Early Christians

422

VI. Reply to some Remarks of the Rev. Dr. Carpenter

VII. List of the most Important Manuscripts, and of the

Ancient Versions, of the New Testament.

433

IV. Principal Subjects, occasional Topics, and Authors re-

ferred to

467