♥The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles♥ {Full Audio Book}
Channel: Media Truth Flow
Date: 2020-09-07

00:00:00  Preface
00:08:53  Mary
00:32:43  Protevangelion
01:13:23  Infancy - Chapters I-XI
01:47:56  Infancy - Chapters XII-XXII
02:20:32  Infancy - Young Childhood
02:28:16  Nicodemus - Chapters I-XI
03:13:08  Nicodemus - Chapters XII-XXII
03:53:06  Christ and Abgarus
03:57:58  Laodiceans
04:02:48  Paul and Seneca
04:17:40  Acts of Paul and Thecla
04:57:26  I Clement - Chapters I - XII
05:34:29  I Clement - Chapters XIII - XXIV
06:16:52  II Clement
06:34:19  Barnabas - Chapters I-IX
07:07:24  Barnabas - Chapters X-XV
07:35:42  Ephesians
07:53:49  Magnesians
08:05:11  Trallians
08:15:23  Romans
08:25:52  Philadelphians
08:36:24  Smyrnaeans
08:48:26  Polycarp
08:59:02  Phillipians
09:14:24  I Hermas
09:57:54  II Hermas
10:46:39  III Hermas - Similtudes I-VII

This is a compilation of ancient books attributed to the writings of the apostles of Jesus Christ and their disciples. These books were once regarded with reverence by the early Christian Church during the first four centuries. After violent disputations by the Bishops of the Nicene Council, these books were forbidden and omitted from the Catholic and Protestant Editions of the New Testament in the reign of the Emperor Constantine. The "Forbidden Books" have been translated from the original tongues, with historical references to their authenticity, BY ARCHBISHOP WAKE AND OTHER LEARNED DIVINES.

PREFACE. 

To uphold the "right of private judgment," and our "Christian liberty 
wherewith Christ hath made us free;" to add fuel to the fire of investigation, 
and in the crucible of deep inquiry, melt from the gold of pure religion, the 
dross of man's invention; to appeal from the erring tribunals of a fallible 
Priesthood, and restore to its original state the mutilated Testament of the 
Saviour; also to induce all earnest thinkers to search not a part, but the 
whole of the Scriptures, if therein they think they will find eternal life; I, as 
an advocate of free thought and untrammelled opinion, dispute the 
authority of those uncharitable, bickering, and ignorant Ecclesiastics who 
first suppressed these gospels and epistles; and I join issue with their 
Catholic and Protestant successors who have since excluded them from the 
New Testament, of which they formed a part; and were venerated by the 
Primitive Churches, during the first four hundred years of the Christian Era. 

My opposition is based on two grounds; first, the right of every rational 
being to become a "Priest unto himself," and by the test of enlightened 
reason, to form his own unbiased judgment of all things natural and 
spiritual: second, that the reputation of the Bishops who extracted these 
books from the original New Testament, under the pretence of being 
Apocryphal, and forbade them to be read by the people, is proved by 
authentic impartial history too odious to entitle them to any deference. 

Since the Nicene Council, by a pious fraud, which I shall further allude to, suppressed these books, several of them have been reissued from time to 
time by various translators, who differed considerably in their versions, as 
the historical references attached to them in the following pages will 
demonstrate. But to the late Mr. William Hone we are indebted for their 
complete publication for the first time in one volume, about the year 1820; 
which edition, diligently revised, and purified of many errors both in the 
text and the notes attached thereto, I have re-published in numbers to 
enable all classes of the nation to purchase and peruse them. As, however, 
instead of being called by their own designation "Apocryphal," (which yet 
remains to be proved), they were re-entitled THE FORBIDDEN BOOKS, 
and, from communications received, appear to have agitated a portion of 
the great mass of ignorant bigotry which mars the fair form of Religion in 
these sect-ridden dominions, I have modified the title to its present shape 
with the hope that in spite of illiberal clerical influence, my fellow 
Christians will read and inwardly digest the sublime precepts they 
inculcate;—as pure, as holy, and as charitable as those principles of 
Christianity taught in the Scriptures they; now read by permission; although 
their minds may, after mature reflection, doubt the truth of the miraculous 
records therein given. 

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