10. Into what principle, according to Paley, may the infidelity of the learned Heathen be resolved? Shew how the state of religion around them tended to foster it.

11. Shew that in nature we find a system of beneficence, not of optimism. How does this fact affect the truth of Christianity?

PALEY.-(B.)

1. GIVE the substance of Paley's remarks on Hume's statement, that the case of miracles is a contest of opposite improbabilities.

2. Give verbatim Paley's second proposition.

3. Quote passages from the New Testament, containing exhortations to patience under distress.

4. Recite the testimonies of St Ignatius and St Polycarp relative to the sufferings of the Apostles. When did they live?

5. Shew from Pliny that a morality more strict than was ordinary, prevailed in his time in Christian societies. Why does Paley think that his testimony may be carried back to the Apostolic age itself?

6. What remarks does Paley make on the style and language of the New Testament?

7. Paley says that we may lay out of the question all accounts in which allowing the fact to be true it still remains doubtful whether a miracle were wrought. Give instances of such accounts.

8. How does Paley contrast our Saviour's manner of devotion with that of the Methodists?

9. And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in and danced and pleased Herod.' Mark vi. Illustrate this passage from Josephus. 10. If God had given a revelation, he would have written it in the skies.' Shew the futility of the remark.

11. Enumerate the temporal benefits conferred upon mankind by the Christian religion.

PALEY.—(A.) DIVISIONS IV. V. VI.

1. GIVE instances of the candour with which the Book of Acts is written, and of the absence of any propensity in its author to magnify the fortitude, or exaggerate the sufferings of his party.

2. Shew by quotations from the Book of Acts and the Apostolical Epistles, that the primitive Christians submitted to new rules of conduct and a peculiar course of private life.

3. What are the considerations which make it in the highest degree probable that the story for which the first preachers of Christianity underwent sufferings was a miraculous story?

4. What particular expressions in St Luke's preface to his Gospel are brought forward by Paley in support of the position, that the Gospels were not the original cause of the Christian history being believed, but were themselves among the consequences of that belief?

5. Shew that from the situation of their reputed authors, if any one of the four Gospels be genuine, we have sufficient proof that the story which we now have is, in the main, the story which the Apostles published.

6. What peculiarity in the style and language of the New Testament proves that it must have been written in the age of the Apostles?

7. What does Paley mean by an otiose assent to relations of a miraculous nature? Shew that an assent to the reality of the alleged miracles of Christ and of his Apostles could not have been of this kind.

8. Demonstrate the absurdity of the modern Jewish exposition; that the people of Israel are represented in the person whose character and fortunes are described in the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah.

9.

"Quemadmodum eadem catena et custodiam et militem copulat, sic ista, quæ tam dissimilia sunt, pariter incedunt." SENEC. Ep. V.

What passages in the New Testament are illustrated by the above quotation ?

10. How would you answer the cavil, “that if God had given a revelation, he would have written it in the skies?"

11. Celsus objects to the Christians that, when they are hard pressed, and one reading has been confuted, they disown that, and fly to another. What conclusion may be drawn from this objection?

PALEY.-(B). DIVISIONS IV. V. VI.

1. WHAT three facts confirmatory of Paley's first proposition does the testimony of Tacitus prove: and what inferences may be fairly deduced from them?

2. What account have we of the sufferings and persecutions undergone by the Apostles and their adherents in the first seven chapters of the Book of Acts?

3. What inference may be fairly drawn from the fact, that Christians, for several generations after our Lord's ascension, laid claim to miraculous powers?

4. Specify the religious observances prevalent among the early Christians, which are in accordance with the precepts of our Lord or the practice of the Apostles.

5. Shew that the genuineness of the historical books of the New Testament is not a point upon which the truth of Paley's first proposition absolutely depends.

6. From what expressions in the body of the history does it appear, that the author of the Gospel ascribed to St John was an eye-witness of our Saviour's passion, and the Author of the Acts of the Apostles, a companion of one of the original preachers of Christianity?

7. Why may not the extraordinary circumstances attending St Paul's conversion and St Peter's vision preparatory to the call of Cornelius, be resolved into false perceptions?

8. State briefly the arguments employed by Soame Jenyns to prove that Christian meekness is more laudable and beneficial than what are commonly called the Heroic virtues.

9. Γαλλίωνος δὲ ἀνθυπατεύοντος τῆς Ἀχαΐας, κατεπέστησαν ὁμοθυμαδὸν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι τῷ Παύλῳ. Acts xviii. 12.

"Provincias Achaiam et Macedoniam, quas Tiberius ad curam suam transtulerat, senatui reddidit." SUETON. in Vita Claudii, § 25.

What term in Latin is represented by ἀνθύπατος?

Shew that the office held by Gallio is in harmony with the fact recorded by Suetonius.

10. Shew that every argument which sets forth the prejudices of education confirms the evidence of Christianity.

11. How may we account for the fact, that a Jew in our Saviour's time, after allowing the reality of the miracles wrought by him, had a great deal to do to persuade himself that Jesus was the Messiah?

ARITHMETIC.—(A.)

1. FIND the value of 17 cwt. 3 qrs. 21 lbs. at £1. 6s. 4d. per cwt.

2. What is the least number of dollars at 4s. 2d. each, which is equal to an exact number of sovereigns?

5. A man contracts to perform a piece of work in 30 days, and immediately employs upon it 15 men; at the end of 24 days the work is only half done; required the additional number of men necessary to fulfil the

contract.

6. Multiply '025 by 10000, and divide 10000 by '025.

7. Convert of a florin and of half-a-crown into decimals of £5.

8. Extract the square root of the product of 004, and 15-625. Of what number is 1 the square root?

9. If the tenth, the hundredth, and the thousandth part of a pound sterling be called a florin, a cent, and a mil, respectively, and a man's weekly wages are £2. 1 florin 2 cents and 5 mils upon which he pays an income-tax of 5 cents in the pound; find his net yearly income, and convert the result into pounds, shillings, and pence.

10. Find the compound interest of £200 in 3 years, at 5 per cent. per

annum.

What sum will amount to £2315. 5s. in 3 years, at 5 per cent. compound interest?

11. Find the present value of £415. 8s. 8d. due 9 months hence, allowing 4 per cent. per annum, interest.

12. A fixed rent of £780 per annum is converted into a corn-rent of one half wheat at 48s. per quarter, and the other half barley at 30s. per quarter. What will be the rent when wheat has advanced to 56s. and barley to 32s. per quarter?

13. A person invested £4410 in 3 per cent. Consols at 90. At the end of a year he sold out at 931⁄2, and invested the proceeds in Russian 4 per cent. Stock at 98. What addition is thereby made to his income?

14. If the estimated annual value of the property in a certain parish consist of the yearly rent paid to the landlord together with the rates, and the rates be calculated upon the rent after a reduction of 30 per cent.; find the rateable value of a tithe-rent charge, the estimated annual value of which is £663 per annum, when the rates amount to 3s. in the pound.

ARITHMETIC.—(B.)

1. FIND the value of 35 cwt. 3 qrs. 14 lbs. at £1. 19s. 6d. per cwt. 2. What is the least number of dollars at 4s. 3d. each, which is equal to an exact number of sovereigns?

5. A man contracts to perform a piece of work in 60 days, and immediately employs upon it 30 men; at the end of 48 days the work is only half done; required the additional number of men necessary to fulfil the

contract.

6. Multiply '075 by 10000, and divide 10000 by '075.

7. Convert of a florin and of half-a-crown into decimals of £5. 8. Extract the square root of the product of 001 and 625. Of what number is 01 the square root?

9. If the tenth, the hundredth, and the thousandth part of a pound sterling be called a florin, a cent, and a mil, respectively, and a man's weekly wages are £2. 9 florins 7 cents and 5 mils upon which he pays an income-tax of 5 cents in the pound; find his net yearly income, and convert the result into pounds, shillings, and pence.

10. Find the compound interest of £600 in 3 years, at 5 per cent. per

annum.

What sum will amount to £6945. 15s. in 3 years, at 5 per cent. compound interest?

11. Find the present value of £428. 15s. due 5 months hence, allow. ing 5 per cent. per annum, interest.

12. A fixed rent of £1170 per annum is converted into a corn-rent of one half wheat at 48s. per quarter, and the other half barley at 30s. per quarter. What will be the rent when wheat has advanced to 56s. and barley to 32s. per quarter?

13. A person invested £2205 in 3 per cent. Consols at 90. At the end of a year he sold out at 933, and invested the proceeds in Russian 4 per cent. Stock at 98. What addition is thereby made to his income?

14. If the estimated annual value of the property in a certain parish consist of the yearly rent paid to the landlord together with the rates, and the rates be calculated upon the rent after a reduction of 30 per cent.; find the rateable value of a tithe-rent charge, the estimated annual value of which is £884 per annum, when the rates amount to 3s. in the pound.

ARITHMETIC.—(A.)

1. How many pounds of tea at 4s. 2d. per lb. can be bought for £12. 10s.?

2. If 14 men can do a piece of work in 18 days, in how many days will 24 men do it?

3. Add together, §, and }, and subtract the sum from 13.

4. What fraction of £58. 5s. 6d. is 3 of £17. 2s. 3d.?

5. The net rental of an estate, after deducting 7d. in the pound for income-tax and 5 per cent. on the remainder for the expenses of collecting, is £479. 11s. 10d., what is the gross rental?

6. Multiply 1.075 by 0101, and divide the product by '43.

7. Add together 2.095 hours, 07 days, and '05 weeks, and express the sum as a decimal of 365-25 days.

8. The surface of a cube is 86.64 square feet, what is the length of an edge?