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Excerpt from An Essay on the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament TH E inspiration of the holy scriptures is a subject, on which it is of great importance to form just and accurate ideas. If they be the compositions of men, who, though honest, and upon the whole well informed, were under no infallible assistance and direction, they are not entitled to the same reverence, as if they had been dictated by the Spirit of God nor can we read them with the same confidence in their counsels and instructions. Their con tents must be subjected to a strict examina tion, and the truth of their doctrines must be ascertained by other evidence than the author ity of the writers, before we can yield to them a' rational assent. It is evident that such a view of the' scriptures would involve us in endless 1nquiries and disputations, and by giv mg scope to unrestrained speculation, would. 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.