The Test of Truth [By M.J. Graham]

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. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... altogether exclude. On thf other hand, if the Scriptures be true, Aoui immrHsely irill you gain by the experiment! limtrud of a few vague, ill-defined notions of ()nil, you will bf able to say--" I knotr in uhom I him-believed;"--"this God is my (ind for ever and ever;" your short-lived nimtrlu.n of unholy ... Read More

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. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... altogether exclude. On thf other hand, if the Scriptures be true, Aoui immrHsely irill you gain by the experiment! limtrud of a few vague, ill-defined notions of ()nil, you will bf able to say--" I knotr in uhom I him-believed;"--"this God is my (ind for ever and ever;" your short-lived nimtrlu.n of unholy mirth will be exchanged ftir it joy uith which no stranger intermeddleth. Your cold and sullen fortitude for a peace which lile uorld ean neither give nor take away. Your 1-limlorllenn prospect of annihilation for a hope I-ull of mmioriulity. Thi. hut cunnideretion I shall urge upon you, In, iini "-./' U ///-oti/y _/."//;-test by which the run he triril. For if you refuse to be l by this criterion, there is but one other to whieh you can possibly recur. You may, if yon plfanc, bring the Scriptures to the bar of hunmu U-tmi11, and reject them because you llnd uumy things you do not comprehend, and mauy that yon do not approve. But these Ifi-oaudn of rejection are insufficient. For, in the first place, if the Bible be true, its Author is God. Now there is between your mind and the mind of God an inconceivable distance. It is extremely probable that many things may appear to His infinitely comprehensive understanding, in a light totally different from that in which they are viewed by your narrow and limited reason. To use the words of the Bible itself, it is possible that " God's ways may not be as your ways, nor his thoughts "as your thoughts." If then His Book should turn out to be somewhat different from the Bible you would have written, I really do not see that this is a sufficient reason for rejecting it. Consider the vast difference of ideas which inequality of intellect creates between two beings of the same nature;--a child and a man. Set... Read Less

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