The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, Volume 4

Nathaniel Lardner

T. Bensley, 1815 - Dissenters, Religious

Contents

• PART: 1
• SECT PAGE 3 Observations on Clement which render it probable that his followers were not such licentious livers: 3
• Leucius was the author of the History of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary: 8
• The writer of it not a: 9
• The Protevangelion or Gospel of James was composed by Leucius: 10
• Chap: 11
• Passages in Epiphanius referring to the Gospel of the Nativity and the Protevangelion: 12
• Observations on some of the contents of these two Gospels: 13
• Leucius is thought to have interpolated the Gospel of the infancy: 14
• He was the forger of the Gospel of Nicodemus: 15
• Two other Gospels ascribed to Leucius: 16
• Of the traditions of Matthias It is rather uncertain what they were: 17
• Leucius was the author of the forged Acts or Journeying of the apostles: 18
• Some account of the contents of this book: 19
• These forgeries prove the truth of the canonical scriptures: 20
• XI: 43
• CHAPTER XII: 50
• OF APELLES PAGE: 55
• 631: 60
• XV: 68
• Apuleius of Madaura in Africa: 107
• Passages concerning the progress of the Christian religion: 134
• Remarks upon the Work of Celsus against the Christians: 141
• Lucian of Samosata: 149
• Ælius Aristides the Sophist and Dion Chrysostom: 156
• Conclusion of the second century: 162
• XXV: 177
• The persecution of Maximin the First or the Thracian: 186
• Chap XXX: 191
• 633: 232
• Two authors who wrote against the Christians in the time of Dioclesians: 252
• XL: 271
• as they are said to have been 572: 292
• XLV: 310
• XLVII: 321
• Himerius: 349
• XLIX: 355
• L: 369
• LII: 380
• LIV: 388
• LVI: 394
• LIX: 416
• LXIII: 427
• The State of Gentilism under Christian Emperors: 435
• Rome besieged taken and sacked by Alaric the Goth in the year 410: 481
• The Correspondence between the people of Madaura and Augustine time uncertain: 493
• Most Heresies of the two first centuries may be reduced to two kinds: 511
• They made great use of the scriptures: 521
• 200: 522
• BOOK THE SECOND: 533
• He believed that the soul only would be saved: 540
• SPOT PAGE: 546
• 202: 550
• From hence came the superstitious custom of writing Abrasadabra as a charm: 552
• Of the principles of the Carpocratians concerning the creation: 558
• OF CERINTHUS: 564
• An account of what scriptures he received: 570
• They are accused of believing the uselessness of prayer: 573
• From the arguments used against them by Clement it appears that they respected Christ and the scriptures: 574
• OF THE ADAMIANS OR ADAMITES 1 The account of these people from Epiphanius and Austin: 575
• An objection taken from the practice of the Gnostics and answers: 576
• OF MARC AND HIS FOLLOWERS CALLED MARCOSIANS 1 Of his time his country and the sect from which he sprang: 577
• He is accused of being a magician: 578
• Some observations upon these accusations: 579
• They are unjustly accused of holding two principles and being Doceta ib 7 They continued in the practice of Baptism and the Eucharist: 580
• They believed the facts recorded in the gospels: 581
• They received the scriptures both of the Old and New Testament: 582
• OF HERACLEON 1 Ancient writers who speak of him and of the time when he lived: 583
• He was a follower of Valentinus with whose opinions his sentiments nearly corresponded: 584
• Commentaries were written by him on several parts of scripture ib 4 Containing remarks on the foregoing passages particularly concerning what part...: 585
• OF CERDON 1 Of his time: 586
• He was an admirer of virginity and is said to have recanted his errors: 587
• What scriptures were received by him: 588
• Of the time in which he lived: 589
• SIfT PAGK 3 The history of him as given by Epiphanius: 590
• The story of his deceiving a young woman doubtful: 591
• Several observations tending to show its incredibility ib 6 Some reason to suspect it was the invention of Epiphanius: 593
• S His way of life was very unsettled ib 9 He had a great number of followers: 594
• His notion of the Creator and the world formed by him and the God superior to him: 595
• The Marcionite idea of the difference between good and just: 596
• 542: 597
• The Marcionites erroneous in dividing the Deity: 598
• They thought the soul but not the bodies of the virtuous would be happy in a future state: 599
• The belief of a transmigration ascribed to them by Epiphanius: 600
• Some account of their notion that Christ delivered the wicked but left the good ib 19 Marcions opinion of the person of Christ that he was not a real ...: 601
• Tertullians arguments against this notion: 602
• Marcion believed there were to be two Christs: 603
• He allowed the truth of our Saviours miracles ib 23 And of his death: 604
• And of the principal facts related concerning him: 605
• The manners of the Marcionites were virtuous and they had many martyrs: 606
• They fasted on the Sabbath: 607
• They celebrated Baptism and the Eucharist but were somewliat irregular in the administration ib 30 They had churches for stated public worship: 608
• Marcion whoily rejected the Old Testament ib 32 He also objected to the appointment of sacrifices: 609
• He framed antitheses to shew the opposition of the law to the gospel: 610
• Marcion received but eleven books of the New Testament and of the gospels only that of St Luke and this mutilated: 611
• He also rejected the history of the temptation: 612
• An account of many other alterations inade by him in St Lukes gospel: 613
• There is a sufficient number of texts remaining to confute his errors: 616
• Marcion rejected the Acts of the apostles: 617
• And received only ten epistles of St Paul and most of these altered: 618
• In the first epistle to the Corinthians: 619
• In the second epistle to the Corinthians: 620
• In the first epistle to the Thessalonians: 621
• In the epistle to the Ephesians called by him the epistle to the Laodiceans: 622
• He probably did not much alter the epistle to the Colossians: 623
• Nor at all that to Philemon: 624
• CHAPTER XI: 625
• Of the time when he lived: 627
• Some observations on his notion about the souls of brutes and the resurrection of them: 628
• A belief in another kind of resurrection ascribed to him by Tertullian: 629
• Some observations on the assertion of Mr Jones that Leucius was a Manichec: 630
• His History: 639
• Of the time when he lived 2 Of his connection with Philumene 3 No foundation for the story of his incontinence: 640
• Unjustly accused of discouraging inquiry: 641
• Of his Writings 639 640 ib 641 642 6 His country uncertain ib PART II His peculiar Principles: 642
• He denied the resurrection of the body 187 ib 643 ib: 644
• What scriptures he received 11 In other matters he generally agreed with Marcion 12 He did not pay any great regard to the Old Testament: 645
• His sentiments about the New Testament probably not very different from Marcions 14 It is likely he rejected the beginning of St Matthews gospel as...: 646
• ib ib OF THE SETHIANS 3 They called themselves the descendants of Seth 1 Some general observations concerning these Heretics and the Ophites a...: 648
• They ascribed the creation of the world to angels 649 6 They believed that Jesus Christ descended from Seth in an extraordinary way: 649
• By Christ who descended upon Jesus they probably meant the Holy Ghost S An account of what books they used 650: 650
• What scriptures they received: 651
• OF THE CAIANS OR CAINITES 1 Some account of the accusations brought against them from Epiphanius and Irenæus 2 Observations tending to s...: 652
• CHAPTER XVI: 657
• CHAPTER XVIII: 663
• Ancient writers who speak of the Montanists: 669
• SECT PAGE 5 Of his companions and assistants and of their prophecies: 670
• Of his pretensions and manner of prophesying: 671
• Of the opinions of the Montanists: 672
• Of some peculiarities in their manners discipline and doctrine: 673
• Of their mysteries and some calumnies cast upon them on that account: 674
• of their testimony to the scriptures: 675
• CHAPTER XX: 676
• He suffered in the cause of Christ: 677
• A strenuous assertor of the divine unity: 678
• He received both the Old and New Testament gospels and epistles: 679
• He founded his arguments upon a great variety of passages both in the Old and New Testament: 680
• OF JULIUS CASSIANUS 1 Of his time: 681
• In his writings he argued from the Old as well as from the New Testament ib 3 Of his opinions country and philosophical speculations: 682
• They were mentioned and written against by Origen: 683
• Of the Ossens who were the same with the Elcesaites called also Sampsæans and of their time and opinions: 684
• of the name of the founder of this sect and of several authors who mention him: 686
• of the time when he flourished according to modern authors: 687
• Of the duration of this sect: 688
• What parts of scripture they received: 689
• CHAPTER XXIII: 690
• There never was any such Heresy 694: 691
• A groundless opinion among the moderns concerning the Unitarians of the second century: 692

Popular passages

Page 8 - Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me : for he was before me.

Page 232 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Page 201 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Page 5 - These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

Page 220 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people : and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time : and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Page 294 - As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

Page 125 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak ; for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

Page 132 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Page 225 - Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another ; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

Page 501 - And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, Volume 4; Volume 4 of The Works of Nathaniel Lardner in Five Volumes, Nathaniel Lardner; The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, Nathaniel Lardner
• Author: Nathaniel Lardner
• Publisher: T. Bensley, 1815
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Jan 4, 2008