Table of Contents

John Nelson Darby

CW V06 Apologetic 1

• THE IRRATIONALISM OF INFIDELITY: BEING A REPLY TO “PHASES OF FAITH”
• TO FRANCIS WILLIAM NEWMAN
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
• HOW, AND HOW FAR, CAN GOD BE KNOWN BY MAN?
• PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE EXAMINATION IS CARRIED ON
• ANIMUS OF THE EXAMINATION
• GOD IS EXCLUDED
• OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED
• GENERAL PRINCIPLES
• PARTICULAR OBJECTIONS — GENEALOGY IN MATTHEW
• ALLEGED MISTAKES IN ACTS 7: 16
• DISCOURSE OF GAMALIEL, ACTS 5
• THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INFANTS
• ZACHARIAS, SON OF BARACHIAS
• NAMES OF THE APOSTLES
• HARMONIZING THE GOSPELS
• THE RIVERS IN PARADISE
• THE SENTENCE ON THE SERPENT: SERPENT WORSHIP
• TWO ACCOUNTS OF THE CREATION
• OPINION OF DR. ARNOLD OF RUGBY
• JOSEPH
• THE LONGEVITY OF THE PATRIARCHS
• THE ARK
• INFALLIBILITY
• THE ENTRANCE OF DEATH
• THE FALL
• OBJECTIONS DEPENDENT ON “SCIENCE”
• THE SONG OF DEBORAH
• THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC
• MR. NEWMAN’S NOTIONS OF INSPIRATION
• THE DELUGE
• ABRAHAM AND SARAH, AND ISAAC AND REBEKAH, IN EGYPT
• “SMALL PHRASES”
• QUOTATIONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
• THE PROPHECY OF ENOCH
• PAUL’S RECOGNITION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
• THE INTRODUCTION TO LUKE’S GOSPEL
• DEMONIACAL POSSESSION
• CHARACTER OF JOHN’S GOSPEL
• STAR OF THE MAGI
• HEROD’S MASSACRE OF THE CHILDREN
• EGYPT AND NAZARETH
• CHARACTER OF LUKE’S GOSPEL
• CHARACTER OF JOHN’S GOSPEL
• CURES EFFECTED BY NAPKINS
• CATCHING AWAY OF PHILIP
• CURSE ON THE BARREN FIG-TREE
• THE TRIBUTE-MONEY
• USELESS MIRACLES
• DIVINE SYMPATHIES — RENDING OF THE VEIL
• THE EARTHQUAKE
• THE MIRACLES OF ELIJAH AND ELISHA
• THE DEATH OF UZZAH
• ABIMELECH, AND ESAU
• ABRAHAM’S VISITORS AT MAMRE. ELIJAH’S RAVENS
• ARNOLD ON THE GOSPELS
• ELOHISTIC AND JEHOVISTIC SOURCES OF MOSAIC HISTORY
• DIFFICULT NARRATIVES
• NOAH AND THE FLOOD
• PHARAOH AND ABIMELECH
• DOUBLE ACCOUNT OF CIRCUMCISION
• OF THE NAME OF ISAAC
• JACOB NAMED ISRAEL. BETHEL
• BEERSHEBA
• THE NAME JEHOVAH, ELOHIM, EL-SHADDAI
• TWOFOLD MIRACLE OF THE QUAILS
• THE WATER: AARON’S ROD: THE ROCK: MERIBAH
• DOUBLE CONSECRATION OF AARON AND HIS SONS
• DOUBLE PROMISE OF A GUARDIAN ANGEL
• DEATH OF AARON
• JOSHUA ARRESTING THE SUN AND MOON
• SONG OF MOSES
• FRAGMENTS OF POETRY
• BOOK OF THE LAW FOUND BY JOSIAH
• THE SAMARITANS
• HEZEKIAH’S PROPHETS
• DEAN GRAVES
• SHAM SCIENCE
• MR. NEWMAN’S HEBREW MONARCHY
• DEUTERONOMY
• THE REVELATION, ESPECIALLY CHAPTER 17
• THE AUTHOR OF THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS
• THE SONG OF SOLOMON
• ESTHER
• INSIGNIFICANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE
• PAUL MISREPRESENTED
• GROUNDS OF FAITH PROPOSED IN SCRIPTURE
• THE TESTIMONY OF CHRIST
• REVELATION OF GOD
• PAUL’S REASONINGS LIKE GAMALIEL’S — PLATO, PHILO, THE TARGUMS
• FAITH AT SECOND HAND
• DIVINE TRUTH COMMUNICATED BY GOD. ADEQUATE PROOFS
• HISTORICAL OBJECTIONS
• CONQUEST OF CANAAN
• PURIFICATION OF THE TEMPLE
• ASSUMPTION OF GOD SPEAKING FROM WITHOUT
• SIMON MAGUS AND DEMAS
• CHRISTIANS UNDER CONSTANTINE
• PROPHECY
• ACTS 13: 33-35
• ISAIAH 55, 50, 53; PSALM 22; ZECHARIAH 12, 13
• DANIEL 9
• MATTHEW 24: 32 TO 25: 30; AND DANIEL 12
• DANIEL 12
• THE APOCALYPSE
• COMING OF THE LORD
• DANIEL, AND DESOLATION TO THE TIME OF THE END
• PROPHECIES OF THE PENTATEUCH
• THIS OLD TESTAMENT A CONTINUOUS HISTORY
• THE GOSPELS
• THE DISCOURSES OF THE LORD
• SPECIAL VIEWS OF CHRIST’S PERSON
• JOHN’S ACCOUNT OF THE RAISING OF LAZARUS, AND OF THE HEALING OF THE MAN BORN BLIND
• CHARACTERISTICS OF JOHN’S TESTIMONY
• OBSERVATIONS ON MIRACLES
• MR. NEWMAN’S REMARKS ON TONGUES
• PAUL’S PREACHING OF A GLORIFIED CHRIST, PETER’S WITNESSING
• GENERAL REMARKS
• MODERN LOGIC
• MESSIANIC PROPHECIES
• ZECHARIAH AND JEREMIAH
• CHRIST’S ASCENSION
• FAITH AND CONSCIENCE
• FACTS AS TO MR. NEWMAN’S CONNECTION WITH OTHER CHRISTIANS (WHILE STRIVING AFTER A PURER CHRISTIANITY); OR, THE NARROWNESS OF DOGMATISM
• CLOSING REMARKS
• APPENDIX 1
• APPENDIX 2
• IS GOD OTIOSE, OR ACTIVE IN GRACE?
• INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES
• THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN INSPIRATION