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LARDNER, NATHANIEL (1684-1768)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 215 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LARDNER, NATHANIEL (1684-1768) , English theologian, was born at Hawkhurst, Kent. After studying for the Presbyterian ministry in London, and also at
Utrecht
  and Leiden, he took
licence
  as a preacher in 1709, but was not successful. In 1713 he entered the family of a lady of rank as tutor and domestic chaplain, where he remained until 1721. In 1724 he was appointed to deliver the Tuesday evening lecture in the Presbyterian 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 July 1768.
An
anonymous
  volume of Memoirs appeared in 1769; and a life by Andrew Kippis is prefixed to the edition of the 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
principal
  worka
work
  which, though now out of date, entitles its author to be regarded as the founder of modern
critical
  research in the field of early Christian literatureis The Credibility of the Gospel 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. 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. (17561757), and reprinted in 176o. Other works by Lardner are A Large Collection of Ancient Jewish and
Heathen
  Testimonies to the Truth of the Christian
Revelation
 , with Notes and Observations (4 vols., 4to, 17641767) ; 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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