d into One Volume, with a Preface and Tables.

*.* _The Books that exist, of those not included in the Canon, are
carefully brought together into the present volume. They naturally
assume the title of the APOCRYPHAL NEW TESTAMENT; and he who possesses
this and the New Testament, has, in the two volumes, a collection of
all the Historical Records relative to Christ and his Apostles, now in
existence, and considered sacred by Christians during the first four
centuries after his birth._

CONTENTS.

_Preface._

_Gospel of the birth of Mary._

_The Protevangelion, or birth of Christ and the Virgin,
by James the lesser._

_The first Gospel of the Infancy of Christ._

_Thomas's Gospel of the Infancy._

_Epistles of Christ and Abgarus._

_Gospel of Nicodemus._

_Apostles' Creed._

_Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans._

_Epistles of Paul and Seneca._

_Acts of Paul and Thecla._

_Clement's Two Epistles to the Corinthians._

_Epistle of Barnabas._

_The Seven Epistles of Ignatius to the Ephesians,
Magnesians, Trallians, Romans, Philadelphians,
Smyrnaeans, and Polycarp._

_Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians._

_The Shepherd of Hermas, in three books._

Table I. List of all the lost Apocryphal books.

Table II. List of early Catalogues of the Books of the
New Testament.

*.* By the publication of this Volume, the Editor conceives he has
rendered an acceptable service to the THEOLOGICAL STUDENT and the
ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUARY:--he has endeavoured to render it more
gratifying to the reader, and more convenient for reference, by
arranging the Books into Chapters, and dividing the Chapters into
verses.

The LOVER OF OLD LITERATURE will here find the obscure but
unquestionable origin of several remarkable relations, in the Golden
Legend, the Lives of the Saints, and similar productions, concerning
the Parentage and Birth of the Virgin, her Marriage with Joseph on the
budding of his rod, the Nativity of Jesus, the Miracles of his
Infancy, his laboring with Joseph at the Carpentry trade, the actions
of his Followers, his Descent into Hell, &c.

Several of the PAPAL PAGEANTS for the Populace and the MONKISH
MYSTERIES performed as _Dramas_ at Chester, Coventry, Newcastle, and
in other parts of England, are almost verbatim representations of the
stories. Many valuable _Pictures_ by the best masters--_Prints_ by the