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APPENDIX. INSPIRATION OF THE SACRED VOLUME. " All Scripture is
Given Bv Inspiration Of Gou."?2 Tim. iii. 16. Recapitulation of the
argument in the preceding Lecture.?The divine origin of the
Christian Religion, and the divine Inspiration of the sacred
Authors, two separate questions,?the latter, after what has been
already said, follows immediately in the way of inference from the
former.?The inspiration of the books of the New Testament,? also
that of the Old Testament. In the preceding lecture, we shewed, in
the first place, that the books of the New Testament were written
by the authors whose names they bear,?that they have come down to
us genuine and uncorrupted,?and that they are entitled to credit as
authentic histories ; in other words, that we have reason to
believe, that they contain a true account of such events as really
occurred. We then examined the question of miracles, and shewed, in
reply to the celebrated argument of Mr. Hume, that the miracles of
the New Testament, in the circumstances in which they are alleged
to have taken place, so far from being incredible, are exactly what
might be expected, and that they are therefore to be regarded as
plain facts, the reality of whose occurrence must be decided by
competent and credibletestimony. We then proved the competency and
credibility of the witnesses who testify to the reality of these
facts, and shewed that the miracles in question must have been
wrought by the power of God, and are therefore unanswerable proofs
of the divine origin of the Christian religion. We next called your
attention to the early propagation of Christianity, and having
compared it with the progress of Mohammedanism, we shewed that the
circumstances in which the Christian religion was successful, were
of such a nature that this could ...
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