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OMA THE FRESHNESS OF THE BIBLE jects, and their works were comprised in a volume. Who does not and feeble tones, which afterward echoed anongst the hills and see that such a work would have been the merest theological jar- valleys of Palestine, gon? Let the wild and incoherent speculations of heathen philos- plenitude and power. Examine the two economies, and you will ophy, and the thousand varieties of pagan religion, give the answer see that they It shall spast his victorious 37 confident great the een and as it poured forth the truth in all its divine to this demad. But while these differences are in fact almost endless, yet it is tained in the writings of Moses and the Prophets which is not are substantially the same. lenged to specify a single moral law, The infidel may be chal- principle of truth, the great and undeniable characteristic of the Scriptures that all recognized and honored by having a place in the teachings of con- or one their instructions are in perfect harmony. Their great object is to Christ and the Apostles. impart the knowledge of truth. Truth is the great and only instru- mentality they make use of in order to transform, purify and ele- the burden of the promises, the medium of blessings and the object vate the human character. No matter how they teach-whether by of saving faith. The same Sun, both natural and spiritual, which history, biography, song, allegory, parable, argument, or testimony and affirmation--religious truth is so In both the Old and the New Testaments, Christ is set forth as dogmatic now cheers us hath cheered and enlightened all the succeeding geu deeply and thor- rations of the race. whole: ion of Woven in all they utter, that it forms the great and of the world," and his name it is that the prophet speaks when he nt in all their instructions. Yet in all their views, says, "My righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from end, there is the most perfect oneness. No matter generation to generation." It was he whose day Abraham fore- Jesus is "the Lamb slain from the foundation it and sations which they treat, all the writers speak the same saw, and was as the Shiloh, glad; it was he whom Jacob predicted d is to , with s, and ity of ly do they all spek the same doctrine, but the unto whom the gathering of the people should be; it was he whom as he approached, saying, "Behold the Lamb they give one another of God!" and it was he whom the banished apostle saw from the Ow out of each other, rocky and barren isle, "as it were a Lamb in the midst of the hey inculcat dence and with each other. They the Baptist pointed have a dep reciprocal suppo and all hang toget and flavor from t take up a and un er a ripeness and freshness throne." Let Now, how shall we account for this unity of the Bible? Re- h copious marginal references, member what kind of unity it is. "It is not," says one,ha diligent student ok at a CC facts common at the uniformity of their to all its parts, for the deepest possible gulf divides the two lan- ainst the same doctrine, guages in which the Old and New Testaments were written. Neither history, now dia- prophetic vision. Ations upon any one doctrine apparent unity which might be produced by a language The ents, or mo nor is there is it a unity produced by likeness of form, for the forms are various thing. That and diverse as can be conceived-now song, now all Scripture logue, it. elation to the the Book being the upgrowth of a single age, and so all breathing ts. They are alike the spirit of that age; for no e stock, grad- this Book, which was teachi they an instal which, in in its favor, nor is The same in most question, ake ate- den- ele- me now narrative, now familiar letter, now might arise from all the parts of Neither is it a unity such as single age beheld the birth of fully an hen are harmony exist but, different p ually growing thanity, "in, its leaves, ah dawn, the oth full-grown substance wellnigh two thousand years ere it was he flower of Chris- formed and had reached its final completion. Nor yet can this ed its bud, and unfolded | unity be accounted for from its having but one class of men for its gM ragranee. The one was the human authors, since men, not of one class alone, but of many, he one was the infant, the other is the and those the widest apart-kings and herdsmen, warriors and The truth is, that deeper than all its outward circumstances, re. d, al s clearness, was conveyed in "sundry and in spite of them all, does the unity of the volume lie, since all uners" by the prophets which was made these circumstances, in their natural operation, would have tended which pervades the Seriptures but one among the many confirma- ds of both are the same in authority, fishermen, wise men and simple-were employed in writing it. t- The same truth, only not nication. t e with the am a d tim Word when "He was made flesh, and dwelt to an opposite result. What, then, is this inviolable uniformity al riarchal and the Mosaic and the Prophetical tions of their divine origin? How can it possibly be otherwise the ions the me voice was sounding, only in more distant regarded? THE FRESHNESS OF THE BIBLE er own and former ages, has left on record the in such a form that (according to the demand of the infidel Strauss) or as a statute-book, following evidence that she did not neglect the Book of God: "I"a man should be able to lay his finger upon a precept or a doc- walk many times in the pleasant fields of the Holy Scriptures, trine for each occturring need, and to find in one place, and under where I pluck the goodlisonme herbs of sentences by pruning, eat one head, all which relates to one matter." It might have been them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up, at given to us as a systematic body of divinity length, in the high seat of memory by gathering them together, so with a digest and index accompanying it, so that in a moment, as that, having tasted their sweetness, I may less perceive the bitter- it were, all might be seen that it contains, touching any of its arti- QUEEN ELIETH, who spent much of her time in reading the It was certainly possible for God to make his revelation to the race best writings cles of faith and its rule of practice. But suppose this arrangement had been adopted, would it have I ask attention to the name by which the queen designated the venerable volume. She regarded it as consisting of fields," There is important significance in this descriptive phrase. much more pleasant is it to wander over a broad and beautiful pleasant carried with it any advantage to us? Think for a moment. How ness of life."

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