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16. My own conviction is just the reverse. .< ]? 
true sayings of God.” The Scripture “cannot be broken It 
is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than or o 
f.:i " It is <■ the Lord God of the holy prophet, by whom these 
t^supersede the patient inductions of Ke°!tnL“e It 
supply, ready-made a compete Di' Tine authority, 
“IfTlm^^SSod, brought against the 
Scriptures have doubtless been owing, in part, to the carelessness 
and'rashness of well-meaning but incompete nt advocate .of h 
hyporiietf startedTy ph^alt^P^" a fi^a'nd established 
to them a considerable part of their ™$*£*£%* 
but exhort others to do the same, as a triumph of Christian can 
dour over the blindness of 
symptom of the times in . Christian faith and the reve- 
S enu ™7 JHhe Word of God, to revise, one by one, these rapid 
icnc ? • „ an( ] gift anew the strength and solidity of some of the 
conclusions and s « been raised a vast superstruc- 
SrnKp? "flrte^hority of Scripture, and practical 
unbelief. in the rest of this paper to answer this first 
nnestion— Arc the statements of Scripture, when compared with 
the teaching of modern astronomy, guilty of habitual inaccuracy, 
: n s i m pler words, erroneous and untrue . Or is the fact just 
the reverse 5 that while modern researches have thrown some fuller 
the reverse, ^ ^ , ical relations of the universe, the 
statements of the Bible are physically not less true than those of 
modem astronomy, while they go deeper and rise higher and 
throw light on the true proportions and moral purpose of the 
Ph 19 C1 'Thflar^Stlamined meets us at the opening of the 
fifth essay on the Mosaic Cosmogony, in these words : 
