[Transcriber's note: This production is based on https://archive.org/details/meditationsoness00guiz/page/n6 Additional citations indicated by "USCCB", are based on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Bible found at http://usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible. ] {i} Meditations {ii} {iii} Meditations On The Essence Of Christianity, And On The Religious Questions Of The Day. By M. Guizot. Translated From The French, Under The Superintendence Of The Author. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1864. {iv} London: Bradbury And Evans, Printers, Whitefriars. {v} Contents. Page I. Natural Problems 1 II. Christian Dogmas 11 III. The Supernatural 84 IV. The Limits Of Science 109 V. Revelation 132 VI. The Inspiration Of Holy Scripture 142 VII. God According To The Bible 157 VIII. Jesus Christ According To The Gospels 230 Note 299 {vi} {vii} Preface. During the last nineteen centuries, Christianity has been often assailed, and has successfully resisted every attack. Of these attacks, some have been more violent, but none more serious than that of which it is, in _these_ days, the object. For eighteen hundred years Christians were in turn persecutors and persecuted; Christians persecuted as Christians, Christians persecutors of every one who was not Christian--Christians mutually persecuting each other. This persecution varied, it is true, in degree of cruelty with the age and the country, as it also did in the degree of inflexibility evinced and success attained in the prosecution of its object; but whatever the diversity of state, church, or punishment, whatever the degree of severity or laxity in the application of the principle, this principle was ever the same. {viii} After having had to endure proscription and martyrdom under the imperial government of Paganism, the Christian religion lived, in its turn, under the guard of the civil law, defended by the arms of secular power.