14 HOR^ PAULINiE. 



difficMillios which presented themselves in the course of oui 

 inquiry. 



I do not know that the subject has been proposed or con- 

 sidered in this view before. Ludovicus Capellus, bishop 

 Pearson, Dr. Benson, and Dr. Lardner, have each given a 

 continued history of St. Paul's life, made up from the Acts 

 of the Apostles and the epistles joined together. But this, 

 it is manifest, is a different undertaking from the present, 

 and directed to a different purpose. 



If what is here offered shall add one thread to that com- 

 plication of probabilities by which the Christian history is 

 attested, the reader's attention wdll be repaid by the supremo 

 importance of the subject, and my design will be fully an* 

 Bwered. 



