OR, THE TRUTH OF THE SCRIPTURE HISTORY OF ST. PAUL EVINCED BY A COMPARISON OF THE EPISTLES WHICH BEAR HIS NAME WITH THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES AND WITH ONE ANOTHER. BY WILLIAM PALEY, M.A. ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE. A New Edition, with Notes, Appendix, & Preface, BY J. S. HOWSON, D.D. DEAN OF CHESTER. LONDON: OCT '8/7 . THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE COMMITTEE OF THE SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORIES: 77, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS; 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE; 48, PICCADILLY; AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. THE Christian Evidence Committee of the S.P.C.K., while giving its general approval to the works of the Christian Evidence Series, does not hold itself responsible for every statement or every line of argument. The responsibility of each writer extends to his own work only. CONTENTS. The First Epistle to the Corinthians. The Second Epistle to the Corinthians The Epistle to the Philippians The First Epistle to the Thessalonians PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. IN discharging the duty committed to me by the authorities of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, I have been engaged in a very congenial task; and this for two reasons, to which I hope it is not indiscreet to refer. I have myself, in conjunction with a friend, gone with great care over the theological ground which is formed by combining together the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of St. Paul.' It happens, too, that I was educated in the school where, eighty years earlier, Paley was a pupil under his father, and that in my boyhood I was surrounded by anecdotes concerning him. and his family. Thus I have stronger reasons 2 1 Life and Epistles of St. Paul, by Conybeare and Howson, completed in 1852, and published in successive editions since. 2 The Rev. W. Paley and the Rev. R. Ingram, who succeeded him, were together, I believe, Head Masters of Giggleswick School, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, a |