CONTENTS. HORÆ PAULINE. The manner of visiting the sick. SECT. I. Assistance that is to be given to sick SECT. IV. Of applying spiritual remedies to the unreasonable fears and dejec- Considerations to be offered to per- A prayer for a person who, from a state of health, is suddenly seized with the symptoms A consolatory form of devotion, that may be used with the friends or relations of the deceased 327 Occasional prayers and devotions for the sick and unfortunate in extraordinary cases ; wiz. A prayer for a person, whose illness is chiefly brought on him by some calamitous disaster or loss; as, of estate, relations, or friends, &c For a person who, by any calamitous disaster, hath broken any of his bones, or is very much bruised and hurt in his body For a person who is afflicted with grievous pains per 330 ib. A prayer for a person in a consumption, or any For a person who is lame in his sickness 335 For a person troubled in mind or conscience A prayer for one under fears and doubts con- cerning his spiritual condition; or under per- plexing thoughts and scruples about his duty ib. For one who is disturbed with wicked and blas- For a person who is afflicted with a profane mis- THE TRUTH OF THE SCRIPTURE HISTORY OF ST. PAUL EVINCED CHAP. I. Exposition of the argument. THE volume of Christian Scriptures contains thirteen letters purporting to be written by St. Paul; it contains also a book, which, amongst other things, professes to deliver the history, or rather memoirs of the history, of this same person. By assuming the genuineness of the letters, we may prove the substantial truth of the history; or, by assuming the truth of the history, we may argue strongly in support of the genuineness of the letters. But I assume neither one nor the other. The reader is at liberty to suppose these writings to have been lately discovered in the library of the Escurial, and to come to our hands destitute of any extrinsic or collateral evidence whatever; and the argument I am about to offer is calculated to show, that a comparison of the different writings would, even under these circumstances, afford good reason to believe the persons and transactions to have been real, the letters authentic, and the narration in the main to be true. Agreement or conformity between letters bearing the name of an ancient author, and a received history of that author's life, does not necessa rily establish the credit of either because, |