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II,, ML- \\hat is to be said about tin- Messianic 

 .|.u-triii'. which is s. much less ck-arly rnnnciat.Ml ' 

 An. I what about tbe authority of the writn 

 tin- honks <t' the New Testament, who, ou this 

 t henry, have not merely accepted flimsy fictions 

 for solid truths, but have built the very foun- 

 dations of Christian dogma upon legendary 

 ijuicksands ? 



But these may be said to be merely the 

 rirpings of that carnal reason which the profane 

 call common sense ; I hasten, therefore, to bri 

 up the forces of unimpeachable ecclesiastical 

 authority in support of my position. In a sermon 

 j.r. -ached last December, in St. Paul's Cathedral, 1 

 ( 'anon Liddn declares : 



For Christians it will be enough to know that our Lord Jesus 

 ' In 1st set the seal of His infallible sanction on the whole of the Old 

 Testament. He found the Hebrew Canon as we have it in our 

 hands to-day, and He treated it as an authority which was 

 above discussion. Nay more : He went out of His way it \\ c 

 may reverently speak thus to sanction not a few portions of it 

 which modern scepticism rejects. "When He would warn His 

 :> air:iin-i the dangers of spiritual relapse, He bids them 

 teiiiPinber "Lot's wife."- When He would point out how 

 worldly engagements may blind the soul to a coming judgment, 

 II- reminds them Imw men ate, and drank, and married, and 

 were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into 



1 Tin- ll'orth of the Old Testament, a Seinmn preached in St. 

 Paul's Cathedral on the Second Sunday in Advent, 8th l'< . 

 1889, by II. 1'. Liddon, D.D., D.C.L., Canon and Chancellor 



1 edition, iv vised ;md with a new preface. 

 1890. 



