CHAPTER VIII. Interview the Fourth.-Peter at Antioch.-Deputies to Page. 194 §. 1. Paul's Account of this Interview quoted.-Acts Ac- §. 2. Paul disagrees with Peter and Barnabas ; quits Antioch, §. 3. The Partition Treaty, and the proceedings in relation to CHAPTER IX. · Paul disbelieved continued.-Jerusalem Visit IV. and §. 1. Motives to this Visit §. 2. The Visit announced by Paul and deferred ib. - 196 € 199 201 210 - ib. §. 4. Opposition made to it by his own attendants and other adherents 211 - 216 - 218 §. 5. Opposition made to it by the Apostles and their disciples 220 CHAPTER X. Paul disbelieved continued.-Jerusalem Visit IV. eon- 226 the Disciples of the Apostles, he commences an ex- §. 1. At Jerusalem, Paul is received by the Elders and James; §. 2. Low Tone assumed by him on this Occasion §. 3. Posterior to all his supposed Miracles, his Silence proves - Page. 232 ib. 235 238 §. 4. Accused by the Disciples, he commences, at the Re- §. 5. The Design of this Recommendation justified §. 6. Dragged out of the Temple by Jews or Christians, he is CHAPTER XI. Paul disbelieved continued.-Paul's fourth Jerusalem CHAPTER XII. More Falsehoods.-Resurrection-Witnesses multiplied.- §. 1. Resurrection-Witnesses multiplied §. 2. False Prophecy, that the World would end in the Life- - 242 254 ib. §. 3. Disorder and Mischief produced by this Prediction CHAPTER XIII. Paul's supposable Miracles explained §. 1. Objections, applying to them in the Aggregate §. 2. Supposable Miracle I. Elymas the Sorcerer blinded.- §. 3. Supposable Miracle II.-At Lystra, Cripple cured.- - - 302 - 304 §. 4. Supposable Miracle III.-Divineress silenced.-Acts xvi. - 305 - 308 §. 5. Supposable Miracle IV.—At Philippi, an Earthquake : - §. 6. Supposable Miracle V.-At Corinth, Paul comforted by - 315 §. 9. Supposable Miracle VIII.-Magical Books burnt by the - 317 322 §. 10. Supposable Miracle IX.-At Troas, Eutychus found 325 §. 11. Supposable Miracle X.-On Shipboard, Paul comfort- §. 14. Conclusion: the Supposable Miracles classed and Acts, Part false, Part true: Author not Saint Luke §. 1. By the false Parts, the Gospel not affected: most Parts true - 338 §. 2. Time between Resurrection and Ascension-Acts con- tradicts Luke §. 3. As to Ascension, Acts inconsistent with Luke CHAPTER XV. Page. 339 Law Report.-Jews versus Paul: Trials five, with Obser- §. 1. Introduction - 347 - ib. - 348 350 §. 2. Trial I. Place, Jerusalem-Temple.-Judicatory, the § 3. Trial II. Judicatory, Jerusalem Council-Board. Acts §. 4. Trial III. Place, Cæsarea.-Acts xxiv. 1-23 CHAPTER XVI. - 353 - 357 - 359 Paul's Doctrines Anti-Apostolic.-Was he not Antichrist? 366 §. 1. Paul's Doctrine was at variance with that of the Apostles 366 APPENDIX - 371 - 375 NOT PAUL BUT JESUS. CHAPTER I. Paul's Conversion'.-Improbability and Discordancy of the Accounts of it. SECTION 1. LIST OF THESE ACCOUNTS, WITH PRELIMINARY OB SERVATIONS. (See TABLE I., in which they are confronted.) IN one single work, and that alone, is comprised the whole of the information, in which, in relation to this momentous occurrence, any particulars are at this time of day to be found. This is that historical work, which 1 Of the word conversion, as employed everywhere and in all times in speaking of Paul, commonly called Saint Paul, the import has been found involved in such a cloud, as, on pain of perpetual misconception, it has been found necessary, here at the outset, to clear away. That, from being an ardent and destructive persecutor of the disciples of the departed Jesus, he became their collaborator, and in that sense their ally,-preaching, in speech, and by writing, a religion under the name of the religion of Jesus, assuming even the appellation of an Apostle of Jesus,-Apostle, that is to say, special envoy-(that being the title by which the twelve most confidential servants of Jesus stood distinguished), is altogether out of dispute. That in this sense he became a convert to the religion of Jesus, and that in this sense his alleged conversion was real, is accordingly in this work not only admitted, but affirmed. Few points of ancient history seem more satisfactorily attested. In this sense then he was converted beyond dispute. Call this then his outward conversion; and say, Paul's outward conversion is indubitable. But, that this conversion had for its cause, or consequence, any supernatural intercourse with the Almighty, or any belief in the supernatural character of Jesus himself; this is the position, B |