CHAP. IV. Resumé and conclusion of this Book claiming a sacred SEC. 1.-What, in these remarks, belongs to the clergy applies à fortiori to the laity SEC. 2.-One, holding our views of Inspiration, may well believe in the Trinity SEC. 3. To believe the morally contradictory as A. We do not deny the Inspiration of the Bible 294 B.-Jesus would not dissent though He differed 295 CHAP. III.-Special considerations applying to the clergy of the ERRATA. Page 3, line 17, for "its" read “their." 47, 11, for "argument" read "agreement." 90, 20, omit "that." 102, 116, 149, 217, 226, 241, -- 28, for "epistle, of Jude read "epistle of Jude." 16, insert "and" before "have oppressed." 5, for "INFALLIBILITY " read "FALLIBILITY." 281, 14, omit the comma. 303, -- 8, after "Holy Writ" insert a full stop. INTRODUCTION. SECTION 1.-Christ the One Foundation, and the Human Mind, with its various Prepossessions, the Groundwork. “OTHER foundation can no man lay than that is laid, "which is Jesus Christ;" but the "foundation" itself must rest on the ground, and be surrounded by groundworks. The natural mind of man, and its various learnings and prejudices, are the ground and the groundwork in which gospel truth, or the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, is laid. The human mind is always generically the same; but its prepossessions are too numerous and too various to be counted. Thus, though there is and can be, in our judgment, only one foundation or chief corner-stone -the adorable Redeemer of all mankind-there are many and various groundworks which may lie under and around that one foundation. Some of these groundworks are, like sand, lacking in power and solidity to sustain the mighty edifice of Christian sanctification; and so it comes to pass, too frequently, that men who did run well fail in their course and make shipwreck of both faith and goodness. B SECTION 2.-Reason and Faith in connexion with Religion generally, and with Inspiration particularly. THE writer of these pages is fully convinced, that amongst other causes which operate as hindrances to Christian life, joy, and perseverance, one of the chief is that-if, in this nineteenth century, we are not substituting a Book in the place of the Lord, who is the one and only foundation-we are, many of us at all events, loosening and weakening the ground on which the foundation is to be laid, by such false notions about the Inspiration of the Bible, as tend surely, though in some cases gradually, to overwhelm or overthrow the great temple of the Holy Ghost, which is the Christian man. Thus, if, as is constantly and avowedly done, the mind of man be prepared for receiving the Christian religion by an assertion, that in religion, and especially in the matter of inspiration, Reason and Faith must not be expected to harmonize, but the former must be subject to the latter, then what result is more probable than that Reason, which is the Word (logos) of God within man, will one day make its mighty voice to be heard in spite of Faith, which, at the best, has only to do with a word of God, not within man, but from without? SECTION 3.-The Effect of Confused Notions of Inspiration on the several Classes of Society. ACCORDINGLY it is daily seen, that, as we base the claims of Christianity on a theory of Inspiration which |