ENTERED according to the act of Congress, in the year 1836, by ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of New Jersey. ADVERTISEMENT. THIS edition of the EVIDENCES has been enlarged by the addition of one-fourth part of the volume, and contains nearly twice as much matter as was included in the first editions of the work. The parts which have been added to the preceding and to the present edition are the chapter on "the necessity of Divine Revelation;" a new chapter on prophecy, relating to Nineveh, Babylon, and Tyre; the chapters on Inspiration; and the whole of what relates to the Canon of the Old and New Testaments. This last is an abridgment of the volume which the author published on the CANON; of which work two editions have been given to the public. CONTENTS. It is impossible to banish all religion from the world, and if it were possible, it would be the greatest calamity which could PAGE If Christianity be rejected, there is no other religion which can be substituted in its place, at least no other which will at all Revelation necessary to teach us how to worship God accept- ably the nature and certainty of a future state-and espe- cially, the method by which sinners may obtain salvation,... 34 There is nothing improbable or unreasonable in the idea of a revelation from God, and consequently nothing improbable or unreasonable in such a manifest divine interposition, as may 5 |