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. 1888 Excerpt: ...by Hooker. His words are: "God so employed the Prophets in this heavenly work that they neither spake nor wrote a word of their own, but uttered syllable by syllable as the Spirit put it into their mouths." Others held with confidence that this theory of immediate inspiration could not be justified by the Scriptures ...
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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. 1888 Excerpt: ...by Hooker. His words are: "God so employed the Prophets in this heavenly work that they neither spake nor wrote a word of their own, but uttered syllable by syllable as the Spirit put it into their mouths." Others held with confidence that this theory of immediate inspiration could not be justified by the Scriptures themselves, and was open to insuperable difficulties. The followers of Socinus considered inspiration to be nothing more than an intelligent understanding, possessed by virtuous and upright men under the guidance of God, who guarded them against the introduction of errors in matters of grave importance. This is the more general opinion at this day among Protestants who have not renounced altogether the belief in the divine character of the Bible. The theories of Spinoza, Schleiermacher, and Leclerc destroy entirely any proper in spiration of the Scriptures, and subvert the authority of the text. Mr. Jowett, in his essay on the interpretation of Scripture, thus proceeds: "For any of the higher or supernatural views of inspiration there is no foundation in the Gospels. There is no appear Hooker, III. 62. ance that the Evangelists or Apostles had any inward gift, or were subject to any power external to them, different from that of preaching or teaching, which they daily exercised; nor do they anywhere lead us to suppose that they were free from error or infirmity.... The nature of inspiration can only be known from the examination of the Scripture. There is no other source to which we can turn for information; and we have no right to assume some imaginary doctrine of inspiration like the infallibility of the Roman Catholic Church. To the question, What is inspiration? the first answer therefore is, that idea of Scripture which we ga...
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