The Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Asserted, and the Principles of Their Composition Investigated, With a View to the Refutation of All ... Their Divinity, in 6 Lects., Greatly Enlarged - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1150039892 ISBN 13: 9781150039898

Riassunto

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. 1825. Excerpt: ... form; and that therefore their interior meaning can only be understood by an application to them of the Law which governs the Relation between natural objects and spiritual and divine essences. IV. Applicability of the Rule to the Prophecies of the Divine Word. 1. Sentiments of Biblical Critics on the Double Sense of Prophecy. 2. Rule of Analogical Interpretation adopted by Sir Isaac Newton and Bishop Warburlon. 3. Defects of their Rule, and the necessity of extending it further. V. Examples of the light which results from the application of the Rule of Analogy between natural things and spiritual to the Prophetic Writings.--Instances selected; 1. Ezekiel's prophecy of a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, (Ezek. xxxix. 17 to 20;) 2. The Lord's prophecy of his Second Coming in, the clouds of heaven, (Matt. xxiv. 29, 30;) 3. John's vision of spiritual Babylon, (Rev. xvii. 3 to 6.) I. THERE cannot, certainly, be a more interesting and momentous exercise proposed to the reflecting mind, than to investigate the nature of that speech or language which God uses, or might be expected to use, in communicating a divinely inspired code of knowledge on heavenly subjects. Nothing can be more agreeable to reason than to pre-suppose, that the style of language in which God speaks to man, must be very different from that in which men generally speak to each other; and that its beauties and excellences, though necessarily of the most transcendant description, must, nevertheless, be quite different in their kind, from those which adorn the best human compositions. That is a dictate of reason as well as of revelation which declares, that God's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways; and also, that the things most highly esteemed among men,---t...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1150039892
• ISBN 13: 9781150039898
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
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