This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...with those notions? Once more; if you repeat that, you cannot believe the Bible, because its contents appear F 1 See Romans i. 23. absurd and contradictory to you: we reply, that this is no more than the Bible itself has foretold. "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...with those notions? Once more; if you repeat that, you cannot believe the Bible, because its contents appear F 1 See Romans i. 23. absurd and contradictory to you: we reply, that this is no more than the Bible itself has foretold. "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." l Let me again put the case home to your own experience. Suppose you had written a treatise on some particular subject, and had distinctly and repeatedly declared, that to a certain description of readers, destitute of a certain degree of information, your book must, from the very nature of the thing, be incomprehensible, and even wear an appearance of glaring absurdity. Would you not think yourself unfairly dealt by, if your performance were to fall into contempt, because those very persons whom you had declared incompetent to judge, were to assure the world that they had read it, and found it both obscure and ridiculous? But let us further suppose, that you had not only forewarned these people of the incapacity they laboured under, but had also pointed out a method, by which they might acquire sufficient knowledge to enter into the meaning of your work, and to estimate it at its real value. Would you not accuse them of ten-1 8ee Corinthians ii. 14. fold disingenuousness in decrying your product-tion without giving themselves the trouble of examining it by the method you had proposed? This disingenuous, this unphilosophical proceeding, is the very counterpart of your own conduct with regard to that book, upon which, for anything you have yet proved to the contrary, your eternal happiness or misery may depend. The Scriptures offer themselves to you as the...
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