THE EVIDENCES OF THE GENUINENESS OF THE GOSPELS. BY ANDREWS NORTON. VOLUME III. SECOND EDITION. CAMBRIDGE: PUBLISHED BY GEORGE NICHOLS. BOSTON: WM. CROSBY AND H. P. NICHOLS, 1848. 2 No. 1893 From the library of Rev, S. LONGFEI LOW. (83) Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by ANDREWS NORTON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY, CONTENTS. The system of the Gnostics, an attempt to solve the prob- lem of the existence of evil, pp. 3-5.- The solution given by the principal sects twofold, namely, that the Creator is an imperfect being, and that evil is inherent in matter, p. 5.- Opinions respecting the Creator, pp. 5-11.These opinions to be viewed in connection with the doctrines of the age, and the other causes that led to their adoption, pp. 11, 12.-State of the popular |