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NATHANIEL LARDNER (1684-1768)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 215 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NATHANIEL

LARDNER (1684-1768)  ,
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English theologian, was born at
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Hawkhurst, Kent . After studying for the Presbyterian
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ministry in
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London, and also at Utrecht and
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Leiden, he took licence as a preacher in 1709, but was not successful . In 1713 he entered the
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family of a lady of rank as tutor and domestic
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chaplain, where he remained until 1721 . In 1724 he was appointed to deliver the Tuesday evening lecture in the Presbyterian
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chapel, Old Jewry, London, and in 1729 he became assistant minister to the Presbyterian congregation in Crutched Friars . He was given the degree of D.D. by Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1745 . He died at Hawkhurst on the 24th of
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July 1768 . An
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anonymous
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volume of
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Memoirs appeared in 1769; and a
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life by Andrew Kippis is prefixed to the edition of the
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Works of Lardner, published in it vols., 8vo in 1788, in 4 vols . 40 in 1817, and Io vols . 8vo in 1827 . The full title of his
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principal work—a
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work which, though now out of date, entitles its author to be regarded as the founder of
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modern critical research in the field of early Christian literature—is The Credibility of the Gospel
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History; or the Principal Facts of the New Testament confirmed by Passages of Ancient Authors . who were contemporary with our Saviour or his Apostles, or lived near their time .
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Part i., in 2 vols .

8vo, appeared in 1727; the publication of part ii., in 12 vols . 8vo, began in 1733 and ended in 1755 . In 1730 there was a second edition of part i., and the Additions and Alterations were also published separately . A Supplement, otherwise entitled A History of the Apostles and Evangelists, Writers of the New Testa-:nent, was added in 3 vols . (1756—1757), and reprinted in 176o . Other works by Lardner are A Large Collection of Ancient Jewish and

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Heathen Testimonies to the Truth of the Christian Revelation, with Notes and Observations (4 vols., 4to, 1764—1767) ; The History of the Heretics of the two first Centuries after Christ, published posthumously in 178o and a considerable number of occasional sermons .

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