(For a detailed account of the Contents of these Sermons, the Reader is referred to the beginning of the Volume.) I. -- THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE RECOMMENDED; AND A METHOD OF STUDYING IT DESCRIBED p.1 II -- NATURAL SCIENCE AND THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE p.23 III. -- INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE. -- GOSPEL DIFFICULTIES. -- THE WORD OF GOD INFALLIBLE. -- OTHER SCIENCES SUBORDINATE TO THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE p.53 IV. -- THE PLENARY INSPIRATION OF EVERY PART OF THE BIBLE, VINDICATED AND EXPLAINED. -- NATURE OF INSPIRATION. -- THE TEXT OF SCRIPTURE p.91 V. -- INTERPRETATION OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. -- INSPIRED INTERPRETATION. -- THE BIBLE IS NOT TO BE INTERPRETED LIKE ANY OTHER BOOK. -- GOD, (NOT MAN,) THE REAL AUTHOR OF THE BIBLE p.139 VI. -- THE DOCTRINE OF ARBITRARY SCRIPTURAL ACCOMMODATION CONSIDERED p.183 VII -- THE MARVELS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, MORAL AND PHYSICAL -- JAEL'S DEED DEFENDED. -- MIRACLES VINDICATED p.221 PRAEVENERUNT OCULI MEI AD TE DILUCULO, UT MEDITARER ELOQUIA TUA. QUAM DULCIA FAUCIBUS MEIS ELOQUIA TUA: SUPER MEL ORI MEO. LUCERNA PEDIBUS MEIS VERBUM TUUM, ET LUMEN SEMITIS MEIS. O KALOS POIEITE PROSEChONTES, OS LUChNO PhAINONTI EN AUChMERO TOPO, EOS OU EMERA DIAUGASE, KAI PhOSPhOROS ANATEILE EN TAIS KARDIAIS UMON. Domine Deus meus, . . . sint castae deliciae meae Scripturae Tuae. Nec fallar in eis, nec fallam ex eis. -- Augustinus, Confessiones, lib, xi. c. ii. � 3. The Book of this Law we are neither able nor worthy to look into. That little thereof which we darkly apprehend we admire: the rest with religious ignorance we humbly and meekly adore. -- Hooker, Eccl. Pol., B.1, ch. ii. � 5. |