AN EXAMINATION OF THE TESTIMONY OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS, BY THE RULES OF EVIDENCE ADMINISTERED IN COURTS OF JUSTICE. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL OF JESUS. BY SIMON GREENLEAF, LL.D. DANE PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Second Edition, REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR, LONDON: A. MAXWELL & SON, 32, BELL YARD, LINCOLN'S INN; W. SMITH, 113, FLEET STREET; HODGES & SMITH, DUBLIN ; T. & J. CLARK, EDINBURGH. ADVERTISEMENT. In introducing to the notice of the British Public, Mr. Professor GREENLEAF's Harmony of the Four Gospels, the publishers have much satisfaction in announcing, that it has become a Standard Work in the United States of America: and its intrinsic value has induced them to make it known, in the hope of promoting its circulation, in this country. The spirit of infidelity is far more restless and active on the other side of the Atlantic, than, happily, it has been in our highly-favoured land: and, in consequence, it has called forth some of the most able and powerful minds to correct and subdue it. Among these advocates of Divine Revelation, the profound lawyer, Professor Greenleaf, holds a most honourable and distinguished place; and his work may justly be regarded as combining sound and practical knowledge with well-directed zeal and piety. Its character has been very fairly appreciated in two leading North American journals, from which the following extracts are made, as indicative of its contents, and also of the high estimation in which its learned author is deservedly held in his own country. EXTRACT OF A NOTICE OF PROFESSOR GREENLEAF ON THE FOUR GOSPELS, THE Author is a lawyer, very learned in his profession, acute, critical and used to raising and meeting practical doubts. Author of a treatise on the law of evidence, which has already become a classic in the hands of the profession which he adorns, and teaches in one of the Law Seminaries which do honour to our country in the eyes of Europe, he brings rare qualifications for the task he assumes. That he |