Ad Fidem, or Parish Evidences of the Bible (Paperback)

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.1876 Excerpt: ... $art Second. IX. PRESUMPTIONS. IX. Presumptions. 1. FIRST ASPECT 2. AVOWED TURPOSE 3. PROPOSED MEANS. 4. PRECEPTS. 5. FACTS AND DOCTRINES 6. LITERATURE 7. ADAPTATIONS 8. EFFECTS 9. FRIENDS. 10. FAITH AND VIRTUE. 11. OTHER RELIGIONS. 12. ALTERNATIVE PRESUMPTIONS. UME confessed that he had never read the Bible with attention. An eminent-statesman and historian uses the following language. "The Christian Faith has been, and is still, very fiercely and obstinately attacked. How many efforts have been, and are still, made; how many books, serious or frivolous, able or silly, have been, and are, spread incessantly in order to destroy it in men's minds Where has this redoubtable struggle been supported with the greatest energy and success, and where has the Christian Faith been best defended? There where the reading of the Sacred Books is a general and assiduous part of public worship; there where it takes place in the interior of families, and in solitary meditation. It is the Bible, the Bible itself, which combats and triumphs most efficaciously in the war between incredulity and belief." These words of M. Guizot are true. The Biblical Religion is the strongest among those who are best acquainted with it. Accordingly, I think it will greatly help you to judge of the claims of this Religion if you will join me in a rapid survey of some of its leading features. 1. The Biblical Religion is one. The same God, the same way of living, the same fundamental doctrines in all directions, are taught, though with different degrees of clearness, in all parts of the Bible. It is true it has different writers. It is true it has an Old Testament and a New, a Mosaic Economy and a Christian. But really these are the same thing in different stages of development. The one is the d...