On miracles Author:Ralph Wardlaw 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: SECTION II. CLASSIFICATION OF EVIDENCES:—TOPIC SELECTED:—REQUISITES TO ITS EIGHT INVESTIGATION. The evidences of the Bible being a divine revelation,—or, a... more »s Paul expresses it, " given by inspiration of God "—are of three kinds—the external, the internal, and the experimental:—the external being those by which it is accompanied; the internal, those which itself contains; and the experimental, those which, by its influence, itself produces.—Before entering on our proper subject, which is a branch of the first of these three divisions, we may just give a passing glance at the contents of each. —Under the First, then, the External,—after the settlement of the canon of Scripture, and of the genuineness and authenticity of its various portions, —are comprised the subjects of miracles, fulfilled prophecy, extraneous testimonies, whether in the remaining writings of profane historians, or (as has in our own day, to so great an extent, been effected) dug from the long-neglected ruins of those cities whose overthrow had here been foretold; every fragment of whose uncovered remains reads a lesson of the authenticity of these sacred records. And to these should be added the early progress, and the continued permanence, of Christianity, considering its own nature, so opposed to every dictate of human pride, and every appetency of human corruption,—the variety and amount of opposition it had to encounter, andthe agency, in itself so thoroughly incompetent, employed in its propagation.—The Second class— the Internal—divides itself into two branches,— matter and manner:—the former, the matter, including the lessons taught respecting the character of the one God;—the perfect and beautiful harmony of the attributes of that character in the grand scheme of human redemption, which it is its lea...« less