NEW

TESTAMENT

Confirmed by Paffages of ancient Authors, who were
contemporary with our SAVIOUR, or his APO-
STLES, or lived near their Time.

VO L. VI.

Containing the History of ARCHELAUS, Bishop in Me-
fopotamia, and the MANICHEANS, with the PAULI-
CIANS, and other Articles interfperfed, and their Tef
timony to the Books of the NEW TESTAMENT.

By NATHANIEL LARDNER. D.D.
The Second Edition.

LONDON:

Sold by J. NOON, in Cheapfide; J. WAUGH, in Lombard-Street t;
J. BUCKLAND, and w. FENNER, in Pater-Nofter Rowe.

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M D CCLVIII.

V. Their Worship.

IV. The Sentiments of the Mani-

cheans concerning divers Points. S

VI. The Manichean Doctrine con-

cerning the Scriptures.

VII. Various Readings, and Select

Paffages in Fauftus the Mani-

Mani- 405.

169.

295.

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chean.

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VIII. The

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Sect.

VIII. The Conclufion of the Hiftorie

of the Manicheans.

IX. The PAULICIANS.

Page.

Hiftoric

410.

426.

To be Corrected.

P. 240. lin. 9. read terreftrial.

N. B. This fecond edition is made from the

firft, in 1745. And the pages of both

the editions do

to each other.

throughout exactly answer

The pages therefore of

both the editions are equally fuited to the

references in the general Alphabetical Ca-

talogue, and Table, and other Lifts, which

are at the end of the twelfth Volume.

March 18. 1758.

THE

THE

PRINCIPAL FACTS

OF THE

NEW TESTAMENT

CONFIRMED, &c.

BOOK I.

CHAP. LXII.

ARCHELAUS, Bishop in Mefopotamia.

I.

I. The Hiftorie, and Antiquity of a Work,
afcribed to ARCHELAUS. II. Extracts
out of it, and the Author's Teftimonie
to the Books of the New Teftament.

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tain.

1. XXAYS Jerome: "Archelaus (a) Age uncer
a Bishop of Mefopotamia, wrote
"in the Syriac language a book

" of his Conference [or Difpute] with Ma

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(a) Archelaus epifcopus Mefopotamiae librum difputationis fuae, quam habuit adverfum Manichaeum, exeuntem

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