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Remains of the Late Rev. Arthur West Haddan, B. D.
Remains of the Late Rev Arthur West Haddan B D Author:Arthur West Haddan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Original Publisher: J. Parker Subjects: Theology Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / History Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Theol... more »ogy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE RELATION BETWEEN THE DIVINE AND HUMAN ELEMENTS IN HOLY SCRIPTURE". As of religion in general, so of the Holy Scriptures. It is a first requisite to any fair reasoning, that the stress of the argument be removed from isolated and negative objections and difficulties, and laid upon the broad and positive foundation of the whole case taken together. Grant that St. Stephen did appear to have put one name for another in the course of a speech, -- or that St. Luke in one short parenthesis so expressed himself as to look at first sight guilty of an anachronism about a Roman Governor, -- yet the impression made by such instances will differ by the whole difference between scepticism and faith, to the mind that dwells primarily upon captious details of the sort, and to that which listens to them from the secure eminence of a well-grounded apprehension of the positive claims of Scripture upon its belief. The mind of a believer, who knows Whom and what he has believed, may well be content to wait for the solution of petty and external difficulties, in the safe expectation that (as has been the fact with the two instances named) such solution really exists, and will some day be discovered, or if not, it does not matter. Moral arguments are unlike mathematical ones. The flaw that would vitiate the latter, leaves the former unshaken, and simply sets...« less