Excerpt from The Four Pillars, or the Truth of Christianity Demonstrated in Four Distinct and Independent Series of Proofs: Together With an Explanation of the Types and Prophecies Concerning the Messiah On a subject which has been so often discussed as the Evidences qf Christianity, it could not be expected that there would be much original thought in such a work as this; and considering that there are so many. Works, prepared with great labor and care, al ready on the shelves of the bookseller, the propriety of sending forth one possessing so little thoroughness as this, may be questioned; but the very thoroughness of most of the works which have been written on this subject, renders them in a measure unsuitable for the common reader. They are all important to the stu dent but the author does not write for students. Most of these works present such a mass of matter, that the common mind cannot grasp it, and see at one view the force of the evidence presented; or else they are so much epitomized as to be unreadable. The object of the writer has been, in the following pages, no to classify and condense the evidence, that the whole force of each particular kind might be seen at one view. He is aware that the number of his pillars might have been multiplied; for there are several of the points noticed under some, of these divisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.