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LECTURE XI.

DIVINE AUTHORITY.-BENEFICIAL EFFECTS
OF CHRISTIANITY.-1 TIM. iv. 8.

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The divine authority of Christianity appears from the
OBVIOUS EFFECTS it has produced, and is producing
on the welfare of mankind
Christianity IMPLANTS THOSE PRINCIPLES upon which
the welfare of individuals and states depend

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Christianity has actually BANISHED AN IMMENSE MASS
OF FRIGHTFUL EVILS from Christian states

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Christianity has MITIGATED MANY OTHER EVILS

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The New, therefore, as the higher dispensation, inspired

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The New recognised by sacred writers, as of same authority with the Old.

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The PROMISES made by our Lord, and the GIFTs received by the apostles prove the inspiration

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Our Lord's promises include inspiration

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Our Lord's last commission implies it

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The gifts and qualifications of the apostles, on the day

of Pentecost, demonstrate it

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Their writings under the same inspiration as the preaching 478 THE CLAIMS MADE BY THE APOSTLES THEMSELVES

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INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, AND RE-
VIEW OF THE WHOLE ARGUMENT, DERIVED FROM
THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCES.-1 COR. xi. 10-13.. 496

In order to know the plan on which divine inspiration
proceeded, we must trace out the WONDERFUL UNION
OF DIVINE AND HUMAN AGENCY in the inspiration
of the scriptures

We must ascertain the EXTENT OF IT, according to the
variety of matter which the books contain
We must consider the ADVANTAGES arising from it
PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS on inspiration

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RECAPITULATION of whole argument from external

evidences

CONCLUDING ADDRESS

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ERRATA.

Page 35, note, for XVIII, read XVII.

50, note, for 41, 42, read 40, 41.

81, 10th line from bottom, for been, read have.
94, line 5 from top, for my, read every.

235, line 13 from top, for individual, read individuals.

LECTURES.

LECTURE I.

INTRODUCTION.

1 PETER II. 15.

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.

It is one mark of the truth of our holy religion, that it courts enquiry. Christianity lays open its claims to every one that asks a reason of the hope which it inspires, and declines no species of fair investigation.

The hope of which the apostle here speaks, is that humble confidence of escaping from the deserved wrath of God, and obtaining everlasting life which the death and resurrection of Christ received by faith, were the means of exciting in the breasts of the first Christians,

VOL. I.

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