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Biblical Criticism of the Present

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For

but only for the sake of clearness.

have been given, and could

Day.

[July,

revelation

could

have been continued, without

still

there ever having been prepared a theopneustic Scripture.

Imagine that revelation worked out thing more, and there existent

nothing of the Scripture

is

then that Scripture

;

about after a fixed purpose

means by which and

;

is still

come

to

that Scripture should be

though

I

;

itself yet

it is still

to

come

by a plan which includes also the

wondrous means the church

this

It is possible, still

in its course, without any-

wrought and formed,

calls " the

do not affirm

theopneusty."

that in olden times

it,

other mighty miracles took place; which have not been re-

corded;

it

is

certain that important, effective prophetical ad-

dresses were made, of which the Scripture

we know

that Jesus spoke

and did

many

makes no mention things of which

we

have no report; also that the Apostles spoke and wrote what has not been handed cious

down

to us

must have been to

it

;

but

Israel

this,

all

however pre-

and the early Christian

churches, does not touch the Scripture as the Scripture of the

Church of God. tion only that

God

For the Scripture brings us from that revela-

much and

to be kept in the

Word

just so

choice of

into

it

God which

as

was determined by

permanent organism of the Conscious

for the church of all ages.

was admitted

much

No

accident regulated

and excluded from

it.

It

was

what

the fixed

directed itself after the need of the souls

of God's elect and the wants of the church of Christ,

known

from

It

eternity,

and therefore satisfying for

all

ages.

is

a

mystery of love and comfort which can be explained only

when each and every or

it

was

was not

writer,

whose inestimable grace and hon-

to record a larger or smaller part of that Scripture,

his

own master

in the writing, but only rendered ser-

vice as an instrument of the

Holy Ghost, and was so wrought

upon and directed by the Holy Ghost, that the page of Scrip-

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