The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 17: what you’re looking at

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x PREFACE. I, in one word, recommend any young man who reads this book to take the following advice :— Don’t play with a subject, but consult the works of great men, and when you can, those whose lives are spent on the subjects which puzzle you; and, never leave a subject till it is logically and rationally settled to your satisfaction. The Divinity of our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ, is denied by infidels, and not firmly believed and boldly maintained by many who profess to bear His name,—to be Christians. I do not pretend in a Preface to defend Chris- | tianity ; let those who really doubt its truth go to able men, such as the Jesuits at Farm Street, or Dr. Newman, and they will return satisfied. But some may take up this work who have doubts, but who are not willing opponents of Christianity. A few words to them. Dr. Newman, writing on Natural Religion, observes, speaking of Gop, “¢ What strikes the mind so forcibly and so pain- fully is, His absence (if I may so speak) from His own world. It is a silence that speaks, It is as if others had got possession of His work. Why does not He, our Maker and Ruler, give us eCOMMte HOOKS (CO mn