A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

BY JAMES MACKNIGHT, D. D.
AUTHOR OF A HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS, &c.

IN SIX VOLUMES

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. III.

BOSTON :

PUBLISHED BY W. WELLS AND T. B. WAIT Co.

T. B. Wait and Co. Printers.

1810.

GALATIANS, p. 1.

Essay

SSAY V. On the covenant with Abraham, in which it was promised.....

Sect. I. That God would greatly bless him....II. That he would make

him the father of many nations.....III. That he would give to him and to

his seed, the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession.....IV. That he

would be to him and to them, a God in their generations.....V. That in

him, all the families of the earth should be blessed..... VI. That in his seed,

all the nations of the earth should be blessed.

Essay VI. On justification..... Sect. I. Of justification, as explained by

Paul.....II. Of justification, as explained by James.....III. Of the justifica-
tion of the heathen.....IV. Shewing that faith is with propriety made the

condition of justification.....V. Of the time when believers are justified.

PREFACE TO GALATIANS.....Sect. I. Of the time when, and of the person

by whom the Galatians were converted.....II. Of the time when this epis

tle was written.....)II. Of the occasion of writing it.....IV. Shewing that

the decree of the council of Jerusalem, respected the converted prose-

lytes only.

EPHESIANS, p. 215.

PREFACE..... Sect. I. Of the introduction of the Christian religion into

Ephesus... II. That this epistle was directed not to the Laodiceans, but
to the Ephesians.....III. Of the occasion of writing it.....IV. Of the per-
sons for whom it was designed..... V. Of the time and place of writing it.
....VI. Of its style... VII. Of the Eleusinian, and other beathen myste-

ries alluded to in this epistle.

PHILIPPIANS, p. 363.

Essay VII. On the MediaTION OF Christ.....Sect. I, Of his media.

tion as a priest.....II. Proving that he hath made atonement for sin by his
death..... III. Of his mediation as a prophet, and as a king....IV. Objec-

tions to Christ's mediation as a priest, answered.
Preface to PhilipPIANS.....Sect. I. Of the founding of the Christian

church at Philippi..... II. Of the occasion of writing this epistle... III. Of
the bearers of this epistle, and of the time when it was written.

COLOSSIANS, p. 483.

Preface, in which the character and manners of the Colossians are de-

scribed. Sect. I. Shewing that Paul preached in Colosse, Laodicea,
and Hierapolis.....II. Of the occasion of writing this epistle.... III. Of the
time when it was written, and of the persons by whom it was sent.