God's book for man's life lectures Author:John Brown Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. INSPIRATION. Paul, writing to Timothy, tells him that he may expect to meet with deceived and deceiving men, "but," said he, "continue thou in the thi... more »ngs which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Every Scripture given by inspiration of God is profitable also for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness : that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." The divine character of the Book is thus submitted to a practical test. The Bible will show its inspiration by what it can do. Like all books that live it will make its own place in the world. It will prove its inspiration by inspiring its readers. It will show its heavenliness by the amount of heaven it sets up on the earth. He was warning Timothy against the shallow talkers of that time as he might warn the young men of our time. It is as if he had said—People are saying that the Bible was good enough for old times but it does not answer for our day. We have come to new times and new ways, and a new dispensation of light. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them,— knowing the godly people and their consistent lives whotaught thee these things. It will be time enough to throw away the old book when those who speak against it have brought out something really better. When the new lights have done something more than criticise, when they have told us things deeper, things higher, things broader, things more cogent and more satisfying than those we have in the Book, it will then be time enoug...« less