An Antidote to Infidelity, Lecture on the External Evidences of Divine Revelation
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Excerpt from An Antidote to Infidelity, Lecture on the External Evidences of Divine Revelation: Delivered at Silver Street Chapel in February and March, 1831, With the Discussions Which Followed Something like this, Infidels would have been sure to say, if no miracles had been wrought to prove religion divine. And would they not have boasted that the argument was unanswerable? In vain we should have said, miracles are unnecessary or unsatisfactory. For infidels would have exclaimed, "miracles are necessary; and surely God could work such wonders as should satisfy every man that they were Divine." Could we have hoped to persuade them, that there was no occasion for miracles? "No, no," they would have said, "we have proved miracles to be the appropriate evidence of revelation, and without them we have a right to reject it." Well then, we may take it as upon their own showing, that whenever God introduces a new revelation which demands our belief, we may ask, "What sign showest thou?" But what shall be the kind of miracles wrought? Shall they be works of judgment? Should God strike some men dead, in order to prove to others, that it is at the peril of their lives they reject his message? I see you shrink at this. With a significant shrug, you reply, "That is too much of a home-thrust; for it makes us think of being struck dead ourselves for our Infidelity." "But softly! softly!" you exclaim, "religion is a message of mercy; it speaks of pardon to us sinners, and grace to make us saints. If so; miracles of judgment would not be quite in keeping with the message; the seals would not suit the parchment; this would be like bidding the herald fire grape shot down the streets, when he goes to proclaim peace at Charing Cross. Miracles of mercy would be rather better; and we should prefer seeing some mightily good things done. 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.
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