Posthumous Works of the REV. Thomas Chalmers Volume 7 (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. 1849 Excerpt: ...and the 'beoTTvevana is as complete, for the object of producing an absolutely perfect and altogether immaculate Bible, as if it had been carried the length of overbearing all the human peculiarities of temperament and habit and genius, by which the different writers both of the Old and New Testaments are so obviously characterized. 13. The last topic to which I would direct your attention, is one that I have scarcely more than germinated in my third chapter, where I treat of the internal evidence as a criterion for the canon and inspiration of Scripture. I say only germinated, for I think this a subject capable of being developed or expanded into many most important, and still unheard-of applications--so important that I at one time meditated the appropriation of a whole week in our session to a fuller exposition of our views. But this I cannot afford, and must now proceed instanter to the more advanced parts of our course. CHAPTER VIII. GENERAL APPLICATION OF OUR VIEWS ON THE EVIDENCES OF NATURAL AND REVEALED RELIGION. 1. The most solid foundation for a natural theology we hold to be the manifestation of God unto the conscience--of which manifestation, however, we will not affirm that the great truth revealed by it is seen by us in the light of a first principle, or in virtue of what some would term the intuitive sense of a Divinity within us. We rather think that the felt supremacy of conscience is the first object of notice, or that which we take the first and immediate hold of; and that by the rapid inference of but one step, there is promptly and powerfully suggested the idea, and not the idea only, but the conviction of a God. The sense of a master faculty in the soul, and which is throned there as the arbiter of right and wrong, conducts us from the...