AGAINST INFIDELITY; OR, THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY. EMBRACING A PRELIMINARY ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A REVELATION; AND A REVIEW OF Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Ohio. PREFACE. THE writer of the following pages is aware, that the subject of which they treat has been often and ably discussed by others; but he is also aware, that their works for the most part, are of too voluminous or too critical a character, to engage the attention of that numerous class of readers who might be induced to go through a less labored and less imposing volume. The works of Lardner, the most valuable ever written in defence of the Christian religion, are not probably seen, much less read, by one in five thousand of the great mass of the people. And nearly the same remark may be made in relation to the works of Macknight, Leland, Stackhouse, Gregory, Newton, Horne, and even those of Watson and Paley. It is well known that Paley's volume is more extensively circulated and read than any other work on the same subject, and yet it cannot be doubted that a large majority of Christian believers have never so much as seen the book. The object aimed at in the present volume is, the throwing together in as small a space as possible an out line of the Christian argument; not with the expectation of making it a substitute for the works mentioned, but with the hope that it may serve as a kind of introduction to them. Some may perhaps be persuaded to read this volume because it is small; and having read this, we trust they will be sufficiently interested in the subject to pursue it farther, and enter into a thorough investigation of the |