admitted that it could not have been written by the Apostle James, as
he was put to death at Jerusalem long before the epistle was known. As
has already been seen, it was rejected by many of the Fathers; and even
Martin Luther dubbed it "an epistle of straw."

First Peter is considered genuine, and written by the Apostle; but
Second Peter is admitted to have been unknown in the church before the
third century, and consequently spurious.

The First Epistle of John is believed by our author to have been
written by the same hand that wrote the Fourth Gospel, the Apostle
John. Second and Third John are admitted to be doubtful, probably
written by some other John, and by later tradition, because of the
identity of the names, attributed to the Apostle. Third John was
unknown in the church before the third century.

The Epistle of Jude is admitted to be a mystery. Nobody knows even who
Jude was, or what he was, or when the epistle was written. It was
known to exist early in the second century. It was generally rejected
by the early church, but somehow got into the canon.

The Book of Revelation is admitted to be the most mysterious book in
the whole Bible. By whom and when written are both unknown. Tradition
and its internal content is the only evidence that the Apostle John
wrote it, and this would apply to any other John as well. It is
evident that the same person did not write it and the Fourth Gospel.
It was unknown in the church until near the middle of the second
century; tho it bears internal evidence of having been written before
the fall of Jerusalem. Most of the early Church Fathers rejected it,
but it got into the canon;--and is therefore divinely inspired!

My study of "Harman's Introduction of the Study of the Holy Scriptures"
was here finished. I have elaborated somewhat on these studies for two
reasons: First, because the results that these studies produced in me,
that I shall presently sum up, were the results of the whole, rather
than any particular part of it, except those portions which I have
already specially noted. Second, I desire to arouse a similar spirit
of study and investigation in my readers; and I thus give this outline
of study in detail, as a sort of basis from or upon which to work.

I have already indicated in part my feelings at this time. I summed
the whole thing up briefly. The one great question around which it all
hinged was this: If the authorship of the books of the