IT may not be improper to mention, that befides the two Works cited in the firft Note in the following ENQUIRY, there is an elegant Treatife, entitled, "Confiderations on "the Life and Death of JOHN THE BAPTIST;" by Dr. Horne, Prefident of Magdalen College, Oxford; who became Bishop of Norwich. But the object of that Trea tife is, to deduce moral and religious reflections from the circumftances and conduct of the BAPTIST; not to fuggeft any arguments to prove the truth of his Miffion. THE TI thofe fhort hiftories of the life and actions of Jefus Chrift, which were written by his chofen difciples, and their fellow labourers in the gofpel; the great events, that firft engage our attention, *Whoever is defirous of feeing what may have been written upon this fubject before, may confult Dr. Jortin's Fifth Difcourfe concerning the truth of the Christian Religion; entitled, "The "Teftimony of John the Baptift:" and Part 4. Chap. 5. of a work written originally in French, but translated into English, under the title of, "The Principles of the Chriftian Religion." These two are the only tracts upon the subject, which the author of the following argument has happened to meet with. : |