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THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT 657 Bishop Butler says that there does not appear the least inlimation in history or tradition that Religion was first reasoned out Explain the bearing of recent researches on this point Butler says that 'it is by no means certain that there is any peculiar presumption at all from analogy even in the lowest degree against miracles as distinguished from other extraordinary phenomena What exceptions have been taken to his argument on this question Explain the statement that though objections against the evidence of Christianity are most seriously to be con- sidered yet objections against Christianity itself are in great measure frivolous What parallel does Butler draw between the methods of natural and supernatural instruction ordained by God in reference to our capacity of judging of them beforehand What further resemblances between the light of nature and of revelation does Butler point out Examine the objection whether it is credible that so many ages should have been let pass before Christianity was made known to mankind and then that it should be made known to so small part of them 10 'It is the province of reason to judge of the morality of the Scripture' explain precisely the meaning of this statement and illustrate your explanation by reference to particular precepts in Scripture against which objections have been raised VIII £ccte ta ttcal f&fetorg Ancient Church History Sketch the life and death of either St Ignatius or St Polycarp Give the views of St Ignatius on either episcopacy or the special heresy combated in his letters Trace the history of persecution under the three emperors Hadrian Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius τ τ