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Ch.1. Proofs & Disproofs classed

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§.2. Disproofs

+Not directly as opposed to circumstantial evidence

II. Directly + disprobative circumstances. Under this head may be ranked the following.

1. Prophecies

disfulfilled: viz: predictions delivered by Jesus, and when the time came, falsified by the event.

1. 2. Rival

Miracles: viz: Miracles which in this same history by these same historians, are represented as having been wrought and even by Jesus himself said to have been wrought, by other persons not commissioned by, or connected with him.

2. Prophecies disfulfilled: viz. predictions delivered by Jesus and when the time came, falsified by the event.

3. Doctrines erroneous in respect of morality, represented as having been delivered by him: doctrines pregnant with error, and that error mischievous.

4. Notions, erroneous in respect of matters of a physical nature, represented as adopted by him and delivered as true.

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II.—Directly disprobative—

1. Rival Miracles

1. Prophecies disfulfilled

3. Doctrines erroneous in Ethics

4. Doctrines erroneous in Physics