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 The full See also:title of his See also:principal See also:work—a work which, though now out of date, entitles its author to be regarded as the founder of See also:modern See also:critical See also:research in the See also:field of See also:early See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

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

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