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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: 47 III. THE MOSAIC COSMOGONY. We have endeavoured to show, what indeed it is scarcely necessary to repeat, that in the Scriptures, as a revelation of the Infinite God, and of Deity that has infinite relations, there are some things hard to be understood; but we tried to show you that there is nothing essential to our salvation in the Scriptures impossible to be understood; impossible to be comprehended it may be, because the finite never can comprehend the infinite; but we can accept things we cannot comprehend; and we can believe truths revealed which are not explained, simply on the authority of him who reveals them. We have also adduced the strange and startling assertions made by learned and, it is presumed, sincere men, who have written a work that has made a great, though not a very enviable sensation in the world, less by the learning it contains, and more by the daring onslaught it makes upon truths that were supposed to be axioms, and upon doctrines that are clearly, and fully, and repeatedly asserted in God's holy word. We brought forward the objections ofthese able men not in a spirit of invective or un- charitableness; God forbid; for if they be sincere we ought to respect them, however much we feel it our duty to protest against the conclusions they have arrived. The Bishops of the Church of England have condemned, but they have not yet refuted the book. It becomes a duty to show that it is worthy of being condemned by disproving the statements which it contains. The assertions of Dr. Williams, the Professor of Hebrew in St. David's College, Lampeter, and the instructor of the future ministers of the Church of England, are utterly unreliable. We gave not bold assertions, but irrefragable disproofs of the accuracy of his statements and of the consistency of his...
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