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Page 3 - We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the Church to an high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scripture, and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole, (which is to give all glory to God,) the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation, the many other incomparable excellencies, and the entire perfection thereof, are arguments whereby it doth abundantly evidence itself to be the...
Page 14 - ... they formed a continuous utterance. But the most striking example, next to the one under consideration, is at Mark i. 2, 3, where, according to the correct text, the Evangelist says, "As it is written in Esaias the prophet, Behold I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way. The voice of one crying in the wilderness," etc. Here, the two prophecies of Malachi and Isaiah are coupled together, and cited only in connexion with the name of Isaiah; partly, doubtless, because he was...
Page 3 - God by their majesty and purity; by the consent of all the parts, and the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God; by their light and power to convince and convert sinners, to comfort and build up believers unto salvation...
Page 15 - But here we cannot have the least idea of the authorship belonging to David's time. We must not, however, on this account, convict the title of a mistake ; for just in proportion as the contents are decidedly and manifestly inconsistent with David's age, was it unlikely that the title would announce that the psalm was composed at that time. Asaph was the founder of a family of singers who went by the name of Sotts of Asaph even in the time of Isaiah (compare 2 Chron.
Page 8 - The principles involved in that doctrine are perfectly consistent with such theories, which may be easily stated in such a way as to be brought into accordance with it. Inspiration, as we have repeatedly had occasion to say, left the inspired historians under the power and regulation of the same laws and influences that guide other authors in their compositions, with the single exception of supernaturally preserving them from error...
Page 14 - Grotius . . . has been more fully vindicated and established by Hengstenberg, in his Christology on Zechariah. He justly says : ' Matthew might indeed have cited both prophets. But such prolixity in citation is entirely contrary to the custom of the authors of the New Testament, which may be explained by a twofold reason. They presuppose their readers to possess an accurate knowledge of Scripture : and then the human instrument was kept far behind the Divine Author, the Spirit of God and of Christ,...
Page 8 - It is not necessary or desirable in discussing the limited question of the inspiration of Scripture to diverge into collateral controversies respecting the origin of the Scripture books, or to refer to these at all. beyond what is necessary to understand their bearing on inspiration. It depends very much on the form in which these theories as to the origin of some of the sacred books are advocated whether they do or do not in reality contradict the doctrine of plenary inspiration.
Page 14 - Asaph is named as the author of the psalm. In those psalms which bear his name we must, when there are no strong reasons against it, conclude that the person meant is the Asaph who lived in the time of David.
Page 23 - Deuteronomy, not only in the book of Job, but also in that which is held by nearly all scholars, even the most orthodox, in regard to Ecclesiastes. This book is admitted by such men as Hengstenberg, Keil, and Delitzsch, to be of much later date than the time of Solomon, and to consist of reflections on the vanity of human life without God, that are put into the mouth of the wise king by a poetical figure, to give them greater point and emphasis.
Page 11 - So that, on every account, it is necessary to consider the actions to have taken place in vision, as, indeed, was usually the case in prophetical actions, and uniformly so, as we shall find in Ezekiel.