Inspiration and Interpretation. John William Burgon

not, as I believe, the expression and the memorial—of Religious Truth in man, it would be absurd to render it honours essentially different from those which it claims for itself, or to make it a master, where it claims only to be a servant."

[10] Serm. V.

[11] See Sermon VII.

[12] Essays and Reviews, p. 166.

[13] See p. clxxvii. to p. clxxxiii.

      [14] Mr. Jowett in Essays and Reviews, p. 433.

[15] Article XX.

      [16] Essays and Reviews, p. 45.

[17] It should perhaps be stated that the edition of "Essays and Reviews" which I have employed is the Third (1860.)

[18] pp. 72–3.

      SERMON I.

      St. John vi. 68. Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of Eternal Life.

      the study of the bible recommended; and a method of studying it described.

	The Gospel, as a written message, meets with the same reception at the hands of the World now, as in the days of the Son of Man	1
	Some points of analogy between the Written and the Incarnate Word	2
	Difficulties and seeming contradictions in the Gospel	3
	Unattractive aspect.—Union of the Human and Divine	4
	The Bible is generally little read.—Its preciousness	6
	The age unlearned as well as unfaithful	7
	Want of preparation for the Ministry.—The question of preparation narrowed to the duty of studying the Bible	8
	Conditions of successful Study:—a fixed time for reading the Bible, and a fixed quantity to be read	9
	Vigilance, and independent inquiry	10
	Consecutive reading.—The first chapter of Genesis	11
	Nothing to be skipped.—Result of such a method	12
	The Bible is to be read, not in the same manner, but with at least the same attention, as a merely human work	13
	A caution	14
	Men not competent to make their own Religion out of the Bible	16
	The advantages of such a study of the Bible as has been here recommended, explained	17

      SERMON II.

      Hebrews xi. 3. Through Faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God.

      natural science and theological science.

	Special act of Faith assigned to ourselves in Hebrews xi.	23
	The first Chapter of Genesis considered: Verse 1	24
	Province of Geology	26
	The Work of the First Day	28
	———————Second and the Third Day	29
	———————Fourth and the Fifth Day	30
	———————Sixth Day	31
	The Mosaic History of the Creation true	33
	Objections considered	34
	Speech ascribed to God	35
	Adam's knowledge	36
	The first pair.—The days of Creation real days	37
	Objections of pretenders to Natural Science	39
	The plea that the Bible is not a scientific book	40
	The historical truth of the Bible insisted upon Скачать книгу В начало < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > В конец