RECTOR OF CLOTHALL, IN THE COUNTY OF HERTFORD, AND CHAPLAIN Ερευνᾶτε τὰς γραφὰς ὅτι ΥΜΕΙΣ δοκεῖτε ἐν αὐταῖς ζωὴν ΑΙΩΝΙΟΝ ἔχειν. JOHN V. 39. "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the NEW EDITION. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1853. Adr. Bil under the one comprehensive head of Life Eternal. A single text, one word or expression, the separate exposition of any doctrine, may here and there seem to be wanting in proof; but it is on the whole train of circumstantial evidence, throughout the entire Bible, that the Author relies, believing such evidence to be much more convincing to the inquiring mind (because beyond all suspicion) than any direct word or solitary text, or isolated doctrine. To the internal circumstantial evidence thus obtained, the proof is confidently trusted. "Wise in his own conceit,"1 no well-instructed reader in the Word can ever be; and where he merely examines, step by step, the doctrines of Jesus and his Apostles, he can scarcely venture too far, or be accused of pretension and novelty, in these his sincere researches after truth. When, therefore, we observe, amongst many other similar facts, that St. Peter twice quotes the word Hades (or Sheôl) in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, in exactly the 1 Proverbs xxvi. 12. |