First principles of the oracles of God, vindicated from the aspersions of professor Jowett and authors of the rationalistic school - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1856 Excerpt: ... IT IS WRITTEN. "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil And when the tempter came unto him.... he answered and said, It is written!.... Jesus said unto him, It is Written again!.... Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan, for it is WRITTEN! thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."'--Matthew iv. verse 1, fec. Thus by reiterated appeal to the written word,--as of supreme, Divine authority did Jesus repel and vanquish the devil in the wilderness! His own words were Divine--quick and piercing and sharper than any two-edged sword, infallible in their announcement, omnipotent in their effects;--but, upon the memorable occasion of the text, the Son of God framed not his replies from the inexhaustible resources of his own infinite wisdom; B He met not the adversary, as at other times he addressed the listening multitudes who hung upon his lips, with the authoritative declaration, "Verily, verily, I say unto you:" But He made his appeal to the Sacred Scriptures. He encountered and overcame the Evil One with the appeal; "It is written: It is written: It is written." Were I, in the course of the present lecture, to adduce no other argument than the fact and manner of our Lord's appeal to the authority of the Holy Scripture, when tempted of the devil in the wilderness, I feel I should have presented, in support of the supreme authority of the Holy Scripture,--a proof well worthy of consideration, and of no ordinary character. Jesus quoted Scripture: He quoted it as infallible authority: He quoted it as decisive on the matter in hand: The Devil admitted its authority, and attempted by wresting Scripture to make it serve his own purpose;--On either side an appeal to Holy Scripture was held f...