Several sects of Christians in the first century, in the apostolic era, denied that Jesus was crucified, as the Basildeans, &c.

The author of the epistle ascribed to Barnabas, I think, denied it, and the author of the gospel of Thomas certainly did.2.

The Jewish Christians, the disciples of the twelve apostles, never received, but rejected every individual book of the present New Testament.

They held in especial abomination the writings of Paul, whom they called "an apostate;" and there is extant, in " Cotelerius' Patres Apostolici," a letter ascribed to Peter, written to James at Jerusalem wherein he complains bitterly of Paul, styling him "a lawless man," and a crafty misrepresenter of him (Peter,) and his doctrine, in that Paul represented, every where, Peter as being secretly of the same opinions with himself; against this he enters his protest, and declares that he reprobates the doctrine of Paul.

(See Appendix B.) 3.