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and integrity of the informer. Information or testi- 

 mony may be divided into human and divine. To 

 human testimony we assent only so far as it appears 

 agreeable to truth : yet this assent is very extensive, 

 and makes up the greatest part of human know- 

 ledge. It takes in all we have of the history of 

 mankind, all the accounts of whatever we have not 

 seen ourselves. And we acquiesce in all this, not as 

 probable only, but. as so much real knowledge; 

 being an assent, which is founded on such evidence, 

 as often amounts to a moral certainty. 



As to divine information, or revelation, reason, 

 knowing it to be diviiu', is already convinced that it 

 exceeds all human certainty. The only thing, 

 therefore, which is to be convinced of here, is, 



4, That the revelation is Divine, or that the Scrip- 

 ture is of Divine authority. In order to this, we 

 may observe, 



First, that, as God has made men the immediate 

 instruments of all those revelations, so evangelical 

 faith must be partly fou tided on human testimony. 

 By men were both the Old and New Testament 

 wrote : and, if we consider them, abstracted from 

 their Divine authority, they must be allowed to be 

 of equal credibility, at least, with all other ancient 

 writings. Though we should suppose them- to be 

 upon the foot of mere human testimony, yet would 

 our knowledge of then be, at least, of equal cer- 

 tainty with that founded on any profane history, 

 Now, if to thi:? human, we add such Divine tesli- 



