[Transcriber's note: This production is based onhttps://archive.org/details/meditationsoness00guiz/page/n6Additional citations indicated by "USCCB", arebased on the United States Conference of CatholicBishops Bible found athttp://usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible.]
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Meditations
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Meditations On
    The Essence Of Christianity,
   And On The Religious Questions Of The Day.

              
By M. Guizot.
    
Translated From The French, Under The      Superintendence Of The Author.
                  
London:

     John Murray, Albemarle Street.
                   1864.
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London:

  Bradbury And Evans, Printers, Whitefriars.
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Contents.
 Page
I. Natural Problems1
II.Christian Dogmas11
III.The Supernatural84
IV.The Limits Of Science109
V.Revelation132
VI.The Inspiration Of Holy Scripture142
VII. God According To The Bible157
VIII.Jesus Christ According To The Gospels 230
Note299

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Preface.
During the last nineteen centuries, Christianity has been oftenassailed, and has successfully resisted every attack. Of theseattacks, some have been more violent, but none more serious thanthat of which it is, in these days, the object.
For eighteen hundred years Christians were in turn persecutorsand persecuted; Christians persecuted as Christians, Christianspersecutors of every one who was not Christian—Christiansmutually persecuting each other. This persecution varied, it istrue, in degree of cruelty with the age and the country, as italso did in the degree of inflexibility evinced and successattained in the prosecution of its object; but whatever thediversity of state, church, or punishment, whatever the degree ofseverity or laxity in the application of the principle, thisprinciple was ever the same.{viii}After having had to endure proscription and martyrdom under theimperial government of Paganism, the Christian religion lived, inits turn, under the guard of the civil law, defended by the armsof secular power.
In these days it exists in the very presence of Liberty. It hasto deal with free thought,—with free discussion. It is calledupon to defend, to guard itself, to prove incessantly and againstevery comer its moral and historical veracity, to vindicate itsclaims upon man's intelligence and man's soul. Roman Catholics,Protestants, or Jews, Christians or philosophers, all, at                        
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