# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1856_S49
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49 Lutheran-Theological Pastors' Library.

...objections have not been left unattended to in the book. Nor is it lacking in citations from secular writers that serve to confirm Holy Scripture and its historical accounts. Few, to be sure, will have so much time as to be able to study through the work uno tenore (at one stretch); all the more important is it, then, that it is so excellently arranged and furnished with such detailed indices that one can easily find whatever information one may seek. A more complete repertory of the scarcely countable objections raised against Holy Scripture and its content, and of the grounds to be set against these objections, does not exist, to our knowledge. Since the work, despite its voluminousness, has been reprinted repeatedly, it is also still readily available in the antiquarian trade at a low price. — Whoever wishes to have a more compact, yet still complete, apologetic work, one which not only, like Lilienthal's, sets itself the purpose of defending Holy Scripture and the extraordinary divine revelation contained therein, but also at the same time of meeting the attacks of atheists, pantheists, and deists on the truths of natural religion concerning the existence of God, providence, and so forth — to him we recommend, above all others, a work bearing the following title: "A Detailed Outline of a Defense of the Christian Religion against Its Enemies and Mockers. By Dr. Fr. Samuel Bock. Königsberg and Leipzig. 1768." The work comprises two octavo volumes of 686 and 768 pages. The author was Lilienthal's contemporary and colleague in office at Königsberg, namely consistorial councillor, professor, and royal librarian there. He was born in 1716; when he died we have nowhere been able to find. The book falls into the following sections: 1. Preliminary Observations on the Enemies of Religion and Scripture to Date. (An excellent introductory section in which the tactics and strategy of the mockers of religion are exposed in such a way that one is tempted to consider the entire following demonstration against them now superfluous.) 2. Reasonable Proposals for Reflection Addressed to the Enemies of Religion and Scripture. 3. On the Existence and Reality of God. 4. Some Truths of the Natural Knowledge of God and of the Soul of Man. 5. Examination of the Religions according to the Marks of a Divine Revelation. 6. On What Is Consonant and Excellent in the Doctrines of Faith of the Christian Religion. 7. On What Is Consonant and Excellent in the Moral Teaching of the Christian Religion. 8. Credibility of the Historical Truths Contained in Revelation. 9. The Prophecies of Revelation, as a Mirror of Authentication of Its Divine Origin. 10. The Miracles of Revelation, as a Mirror of Authentication of Its Divine Origin. 11. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Dead, as a Mirror of Authentication of the Divine Origin of the Christian Religion. 12. Proof That the Christian Religion Is the Only True One, Founded upon a Divine