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Excerpt from The Christian Remembrancer, Vol. 31: A Quarterly Review; January-June, 1856
The safety of the inference, ' he truly observes, must depend upon the extent of the induction.' So that, according to this view, our faith in the authority and credibilit of Holy Scripture hangs upon the soundness or unsoundness ct? An inductive con clusron: in other words, upon the success of ancient and modern researches, ' designed to maintain that authority and credibility. The obvious corollary is, that if, in any single case, all our research fails to give a satisfactory account 0 apparently con tradictory phenomena in the Scriptures, we must give up our reliance upon them. It is very true that, as is here said, new facts and results may, and in all probability will, hereafter be accumulated, of a kind favourable to the authority of Scripture. But, then, new objections may be, and are accumulated likewise; and, in strikin a balance, we have no reason for saying that it will be pro rat er than con. It is surely a naive admission, and points to something defective in the whole treatment of the sub ject, that 'the success of the method' pursued in this work 'is so tible of bein indefinitely increased.' We profess ourselves unab e to comprehend a ated success in a matter of this kind. If the proof allege for the divine authority of Scripture is sufiicient, why, it is successful, and there is an end of the matter. It may receive fresh illustrations, confirmations, and the like, but more successful it can never be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
