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[85:1]"Lucian tells us that whenever any crafty juggler, expert in
his trade, and who knew how to make a right use of things, went
over to the Christians, he was sure to grow rich immediately, by
making a prey of their simplicity. And Celsus represents all
the Christian wonder-workers as mere vagabonds and common cheats
'who rambled about to play their tricks at fairs and markets; not
in the circles of the wiser and better sort, for among such they
never ventured to appear; but whenever they observed a set of raw
young follows, slaves or fools; there they took care to intrude
themselves and to display their arts.' ... The same charge was
constantly urged against them by all the other enemies of the
Christian faith, Julian Porphyry etc." Middleton's Free
Inquiry, p. 23.

[86:2] McClintock
and Strong's Cyclopaedia, "Relics."

[86:3] Ep. 22 ad
Marcell.

[86:4] Gibbon,
chap. xxviii.

[87:5] Gibbon,
chap. xxviii., footnote. See also Jortin, vol. iii., p. 90.

[87:6] Gibbon,
chap. xxvii.

[88:7] Vol. III.,
p. 90.

[88:8] Gibbon,
chap. xxviii.

[88:9]Vol. II, p.
53.

[88:1] Gibbon,
chap. xxviii.

[89:2] Vol. II., p.
223.

[90:3] Two
Essays on Miracles, p. 297.

[90:4] Gibbon,
chap, xxiii.; Jortin, vol. ii., p. 29.

[90:5] Histoire
Ecclésiastique, Bk. VII, ch. v.

[90:6] Dupin,Bibliothèque Ecclésiastique, vol. iii., p.
149.

[91:7] Calvin,Traité Des Reliques (Geneva, 1599), pp. 19, 20.

[91:8] Gibbon,
chap. xxiii.

[91:9] Jortin, Vol.
ii, p. 224.

[91:1] Jortin, Vol.
iii., pp. 87, 88.

[91:2] Calvin, p.
23.

[92:3] Gibbon,
chap. lxi.

[92:4] P. 15.

[92:5] Jortin, vol.
ii., p. 45.

[92:6] Calvin, p.
12.

[92:7] Jortin, vol.
iii., p. 306.

[92:8] McClintock
and Strong's Cyclopedia, "Relics."

[93:9] Dr. Schaff's
article on the Worship of Relics: Methodist Quarterly
Review, October, 1866.

[93:1] Mosheim,
vol. ii, p. 314, footnote.

[93:2] P. 41.

[93:3] Calvin, p.
24.

[93:4] Calvin, p.
37.

[94:5] P. 11

[94:6] H. Foulis,History of Romish Treasons, p. 13.

[94:7] Memoirs
Concerning the Portuguese Inquisition, p. 166.

[94:8] Leo
Allatius, De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba.

[95:9] Cornhill
Magazine, January, 1869.

[95:1] Eccles. Hist., bk. vii., § 21.

[95:2] Jortin, vol.
iii, p. 55.

[96:3] Calvin, p.
49.

[96:4] Gibbon,
chap. xxviii.

[96:5] Gibbon,
chap. xlv.

[96:6] P. 35.

[97:7] Gibbon,
chap. xlv., footnote.

[97:8] Calvin, p.
52.

[97:9] Vol. III, p.
5; Gibbon, chap. xxviii.

[97:1] Gibbon,
chap. xxviii.

[98:2] Calvin, P.
61.

[98:3]Bibliothèque Universelle, vi., 14.

[98:4] Jortin, vol.
iii., p. 132.

[98:5] Calvin, p.
57.

[98:6] Ep. 53.

[99:7] Jortin, vol.
iii., p. 101; Gibbon, chap. xxviii.

[99:8] Calvin, p.
8.

[100:9] Calvin,
P. 33.

[100:1] Memoirs of the Portuguese Inquisition, p. 153.

[100:2] Catalogue of the Most Eminently Venerable Relics, etc.,
1752.

[101:3] Ibid, p. 17.

[101:4] P. 38.

[101:5] Mosheim
says the Christians were so anxious to possess these preservatives
of health and safeguards against danger, that those who could not
beg, borrow or buy them, deemed it expedient to steal them;
for "whatever means were resorted to in such a cause as this were
supposed to be pious and acceptable to God, provided they were
successful." - Vol. III., p. 223.

[102:8] Jortin,
vol. iii., p. 134.

[102:9] Gibbon,
chap. xxviii.; Middleton's Free Inquiry, p. 227.

[102:1] Vol. I.,
p. 421.

[103:2] Rev. J.
J. Blunt, Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs in Modern
Italy, p. 11.

[103:3] Jortin,
vol. iii., p. 227.

[103:4] Jortin,
vol. iii., p. 228.