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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... to the sense--in the other He is present to the soul. The Shekinah which shone through the veil of Moses, now shines unveiled into the hearts of believers, giving them the "light of the knowledge of God in the face of Christ Jesus." The conscious testimony of the Holy Spirit is the only satisfactory evidence of faith in Christ. The external evidence of the truth of Christianity may convince the intelligence of some men that the system has historical valid See Appendix G, --Bishop Taylor's Testimony. ity. The use of such evidence is proper in its place; and in the hands of those who understand its place and its comparative value it may be used with profit to others. But some have written on the evidences of Christianity that knew nothing themselves of the higher testimony. And many have believed the history of "God manifest in the flesh," who never possessed the inward testimony produced by the "faith which works by love and purifies the heart." Such men may discuss, with much learning and intellectual acumen, the dogma of theological sj'stems: but it is written (1 Cor. xii. 3), and will be true for ever, that "no man can say Jesus is the Christ but by the Holy Ghost." This view of the place and comparative value of miraculous and spiritual testimony ia The Spirit was not promised to testify of the canon of the Old Testament, or the Hagiography, or histories of Old Testament times. It testifies of the Old Testament system as introductory, and hence immature both in precept and example. Its promised "conviction of sin " is in view of Christ, and it "takes of the things that belong to Christ and shows them to the believer," and to the believer only. recognized by the Saviour. Before...