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Excerpt from The Doctrine of a Future Life as Contained in the Old Testament Scriptures: A Discourse Delivered in Wesley Chapel, Camborne, July 28th, 1874, in Connection With the Assembling of the Wesleyan-Methodist Conference; Being the Fifth Lecture of the Foundation of the Late John Fernley, Esq.
In speaking thus, we do not confound things which differ. We shall pay no homage to the professed sceptic. He is commonly the smallest and most self-suficicient of mankind; and we are as little careful to satisfy his sentimental doubts, as we are disposed to recognize his principles, or adopt his methods. Neither do we accept - on the contrary, we utterly disallow and repudiate - a number of conclusions, touching the origin, constitution, and character of certain books of the Old Testament, at which the Biblical critics of the so called advanced school claim to have arrived, and which, as they declare, the ignorant, the prejudiced, and the interested alone can scruple.
For example, according to the critics in question, the books of Moses are a blundering patchwork of fragments taken from different sources, and seamed together by various hands, at times long posterior to the Mosaic epoch; the book of Deuteronomy, in particular, being clearly written not long before the Babylonish The last twenty-seven chapters of the prophecy of Isaiah, again, are no work, it is affirmed, of the mind and pen which produced the first thirty-nine chapters; they are the composition of an unknown author - call him the Pseudo or deutero-isaiah.
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Excerpt from The Doctrine of a Future Life as Contained in the Old Testament Scriptures: A Discourse Delivered in Wesley Chapel, Camborne, July 28th, 1874, in Connection With the Assembling of the Wesleyan-Methodist Conference; Being the Fifth Lecture of the Foundation of the Late John Fernley, Esq.
The aim of the present inquiry is to determine how far the doctrine of a Future Life is contained in the Old Testament, and to state in brief what that doctrine is. A larger, loftier topic, one more sacred and heart-stirring, in certain respects one more difficult, could hardly occupy us. History, philosophy, science, all have a substantive interest in the question; while for the disciple of Christ, bearing, as it does, directly upon the grounds, the matter, and the sanctions of his faith, it cannot but possess an unspeakable gravity and attractiveness. At the present moment, likewise, the importance attaching to our thesis by its very nature is indefinitely heightened by the keen public feeling which gathers around all Scripture dogma; by the ruthless and often arbitrary criticism, which menaces the ancient glory of the earlier canon of Holy Writ; and, in particular, by the general agreement and positive assertion, on the part of the contemporary Biblical scepticism, that the Old Testament either does not contain the doctrine of a Future Life at all, or that that doctrine is only found there under pitiful pro portions, and with infinite haziness and uncertainty of outline.
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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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