(_g_) As far back as history goes, doctrines[1] were taught, facts asserted, and quotations made, corresponding with the Canonical Gospels, and such use was continued until a time when there is a positive identification of them by name. Within this period there was one writer making numerous quotations and references, who declared that the writings from which he quoted, and to which he referred, were “Memoirs” of Christ “drawn up” by Apostles or companions of Apostles. (_h_) There is no proof of the existence of writings _other_ than those Gospels answering to his description, or corresponding with the quotations; and finally within forty years of his first reference to these “Memoirs” they are clearly seen to be the Canonical Gospels. (_i_) From first to last there is no evidence whatever of displacement of Gospels previously accepted, and the substitution of others for them in the churches generally. (_j_) The Fourth Gospel is of such a character, and was in use so soon after the death of its author (and who is also stated as its author in the Gospels itself), as to make the idea of attempted and successful _forgery_ in the highest degree improbable. (_k_) And these Gospels within less than eighty years from the death of the Apostles other than John, and within forty years of _his_ death, were read with the Prophets in the churches, in city and country, every Lord’s day, _and accepted as Apostolic_. (_l_) From the earliest period they were where they should be if authentic, and where they could not have been, unless _accepted_ as authentic.