The Character and Conduct of the Apostles IN EIGHT SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, IN THE YEAR MDCCCXXVII. AT THE LECTURE FOUNDED BY THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M. A. CANON OF SALISBURY. BY HENRY HART MILMAN, M. A. PROFESSOR OF POETRY, AND LATE FELLOW OF BRASEN NOSE OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE AUTHOR. SOLD BY JOHN MURRAY, LONDON; AND J. PARKER, OXFORD. ΤΟ THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. SIRE, THE gracious condescension, which permits me to dedicate this Volume to your Majesty, is peculiarly gratifying to one, whose father was honoured, during his professional career, by the distinguished favour of our late revered sovereigns. I trust that nothing in this Work may be found unworthy of the learned body, before which the Discourses were delivered, still less of the exalted patronage under which they appear. Should the Volume succeed in making any impression on the public mind, I am confident that I shall be humbly instrumental in promoting a cause, in which your Majesty feels the liveliest interest-the advancement of Christianity among your subjects. I have the honour to be, SIRE, Your MAJESTY's most dutiful subject, and most humble and devoted servant, HENRY HART MILMAN. OXFORD, CONTENTS. And when they were come in, they went up room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphæus, and Simon Ze- lotes, and Judas the brother of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and sup- plication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Contrast between the primitive assembly of the apostles, and the progress, extent, permanence, and influence of Christianity. Subject proposed; The necessity of mi- racles for the dissemination of Christianity. First point, The apostles the first teachers of Christianity proved, 1. from general tradition, 2. from the history of the Acts. Credibility of the Acts, as far as its pri- |