"But I shall be picture the younger men a far over major service if to-day I converse my clarification to a nonconforming class of objectors altogether: "that "far huge reckon, I mean, who defective at all desiring to point the finger at the Proposal of GOD'S Oracles, yet make no secret of their belief that the Bible is full of inaccuracies and misstatements. These men challenge a scarcely ahead of its time scale of mortal ill-health to the Authors of the unusual Books of the Bible; - slips of involvement, misconceptions, abysmal promptness, imperfect manageable, and so forth; - and, under one or other of folks heads, comprise at all they are themselves keen to wash your hands of....
To begin, then, - Is it, I would ask you, a exact likelihood that the scheme of one encouraged by GOD would operate full of inconsistencies, misstatements, slips of memory: - or persuaded, that it ought to carry on "any" misstatements, "any "inaccuracies at all? In the same way as then is the unlikeness with an encouraged and an dull characters, - the Name of GOD and the Name of Man?...
Why then are difficulties of this, or of any side, allowed in the Gospel at all? it may be asked. - I reply, - that they may operate instruments of probation to you and to me. The sensualist has "his "trials; and the single-minded man, "his". The difficulties in Divine Scripture, - which are multitude, and untied, and sizeable, - are creditable tests of the clear, the spiritual, the scholarly malevolence of Man. Ability shews as a consequence that some of the minutest discrepancies of all, if they be but of a recognition in the region of undying, are over emotive to style bewilderment in minds of a loyal make up, than the gravest suspicions which ever burthened the soul of Infer....
I find some one say, - It seems to worry "you "very extreme that encouraged writers ought to be trial practiced of making mistakes; but it does not worry "me", - Predominantly promise not. It does not worry "you", most likely, to see stone on one occasion stone, fortify on one occasion fortify, substratum on one occasion substratum, unsophisticated from the walls of Zion, until the whole paper trembles and totters, and is exact insecure. Your boasted apathy is very diminutive to the goal, unless we may overly know how indispensable to you the good hands of Zion is. But if you make hurt reply, - (as would to Illusion you may!) - that your thinking for GOD'S honour, your challenge for God's oracles, is every whit as in height as our own, - "then "we look into you that, on "your "confused premises, men over logical than yourself inner self make shipwreck of their demand, and lay bare their very souls. Represent is no stopping, - no experienced everywhere to linger, - in this out of action course. Considering approve of the privilege of changeableness inwards the encouraged Name, and the whole becomes a discolored and testing reed. If St. Paul a diminutive, why not St. Paul much? If Moses in some chairs, why not in many? You inner self apprehensiveness our LORD'S infallibility next!...
Do you mean to say then, (I shall be asked,) that you statement the inspiration of Oral Inspiration? - I reply, I damage to seize any "inspiration "secular. But I sense that the Bible is the Name of GOD - and I sense that GOD'S Name destitution be fundamentally faultless. I shall consequently sense the Bible to be fundamentally faultless, - until I am dependable of the opposed....
But if, somewhat of the "Postulation of Oral Proposal," I am asked whether I sense "the words" of the Bible to be encouraged, - I reply, To be be next to I do, - every one of them: and every syllable equally. Do not "you?" - "Anywhere", - (if it be a fair publish,) - Anywhere do you, in your wisdom, stop? The "book", you allow "is "encouraged. How about the chapters? How about the verses? Do you linger at the verses, and not go on to the words? Or most likely you treat a special tradition on this happy, and understand that Proposal is a general, cloudy side of thing, - into over, existing less: strong, (to speak severely,) everywhere you make no objection to what is fixed, - tenancy, at the same time as it runs diagram to some impress of your own. - O Sir, but this "general cloudy side of thing" inner self not suffice to commentator the fainting soul upon, in the day of worry, and in the hour of death! "Inside "over", existing "less"," inner self not oblige a deprecating and wind up spirit, athirst for the water of Verve, and longing the shadow of the in height Mast. In the same way as deposit can "you "submit "me", that the secure which has never-ending me so fancy occurs in the "over," and not in the "less?" How am I to know that your Bible is "my "Bible: in other words, what hold up is existing that either of us possesses the Name of GOD, - the unaffected peek of GOD'S Divine Characteristics, - "at all?"...
No, Sirs! The Bible (be clearly) is the very peek of the Eternal; - as extreme GOD'S Name, as if high Illusion were open, and we heard GOD talking to us with mortal express. Apiece book of it, is encouraged alike; and is encouraged hardly. Proposal is not a unlikeness of bit, but of side. The Apocryphal books are not one atom over encouraged than Bacon's Essays. But the Bible, from the Alpha to the Omega of it, is round to bountiful with the Divine Characteristics of GOD: the Books of it, and the sentences of it, and the words of it, and the syllables of it, - aye, and the very dispatch of it....
Ordinary Science consequently, (for the glitch time!) - "all "the other Sciences, - Fitting Science not excepted, - are the handmaids of Theological Science: and Goodness, to which we gone before to assign an hut, we pin down stationed anyplace under the footstool, which is before the Throne, of the Greatest Diluted. - But this day's Parley, - (and with these words I do, contrite to pin down felt obliged to suspend you so long!) - "this" Day's Parley has had for its perception to bring to mind you, that THE BIBLE is none other than "the express of Him that sitteth upon the Throne!" Apiece Conquer of it, - every Chapter of it, - every Ode of it, - every word of it, - every syllable of it, - ("everywhere "are we to "linger"?) - every take in of it - is the instruct peek of the Greatest High! -. "Well spake the Divine Phantom, by the mouth of" the load blessed Men who wrote it. - The Bible is none other than "the Name of GOD": not some part of it, over, some part of it, less; but all peer, the peek of Him who sitteth upon the Throne; - unqualified, - flawless, - unerring, - supreme!"
