The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-11-04
No. 1918.


Paul's word, Good inspired,' Tim. iii.
10, Is made to mean little more than the
aiilatus OF the poet, OF the dream Of the en-
thusiast. Against this deadly error we
would utter note OF warning.
The Bible, as rule Of faith and the
guide Of life, is valuable only as we place
implicit confidence in it as the true word Of
the living God. Once unsettle the trust of
the mind in il as Ills utterance to us, though
ia human language, and you have DESTROYED
the foundations Of all faith, and thrown the
race out upon storm-swept ocean, without
chart, compass or polestar. For il the foun-
dations be destroyed, what can even the
righteous dos
Though the subject is large one, and not
without IFS difficulties, there are few points
which if unalteraby established in the mind,
will free US from doubt and danger.
The great question is this Were the
writer's Of the book we call the Bible diyinely
and unerringiy guided in what they wrote
and is this book therefore an infallibe guide
to us
In answer, note The following points:
!. God promised this guidance to those
whom he called as prophets. Thus to Moses
and Aaron he said, q will be with thy
mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach
YOU what We shall do" Exod. ". Is. See
also Deut. xviii. 90. Such language is fire.
quent throughout the Old Testament.
2. The prophets claimed that what they
uttered were Gods words. Hear We, and
give ear; be not proud for the lord hath
spoken" Jer. xiii. Is. So in hundreds Of
instances.
| 5. Christ and the New Testament writers
appeal to the Old Testament as inspired of
God: " Have you not read that which was
spoken unto you by God" Matt. xii. 81.
q Ii is written," was enough to carry un-
doubling conviction to their hearers.
Of the more than four hundred references
in the New Testament to the authority Of
the Old, we refer to only two, and they are
conclusive, namely: 2 Tim. iii. 10, and .
Peter i. 81.
In regard TO the inspiration Of the New
Testament, let it be noted:
|. Christ promised the Holy Spirit to
dwell in and guide his disciples, the writer's,
into all truth. See John xiv. I6, II and 26;
XIV. 26. % 3; xvi. ls, Is.
2. The apostles claim obedience to their
commands, and credence to their utterances
because God inspired. eye received the
word of God which We heard of us, not as
the word of men, but as il is in truth the
y9Ed Of God" Thess. ii. Is. See also
This line of argument, if fully developed,
will establish the inspiration of the Old and
New Testament, in the minds Of all who be-
lieve in the yeracity Of Christ and his apos
ties.
Upon the question, How FAR did this di-
vine guidance extend: We know Of no safe
ground, but that which claims entire control
of the writers by the Holy Spirit, even to
the very words in which they wrote, and
extending over the whole range Of topics in
the Scriptures, theology, ethics, history, BIZ
ography, every thing.
Clinging 10 this as the truth, we meet
fewer difficulties than upon any theory OF
partial inspiration, aud have stable founda-
tion upon which to stand, against the as
saults Of inidelity.
The Scriptures, the Scriptures as the very
words Of God to us--this is the sheet-anehor
of our faith. Let US clasp them TO our
hearts, take them as the man Of our counsel,
the light 10 our path, the unerring directory
in duty, the support in trial, the solace IN
afiliction, and the infallible guide to heaven.
Amyiean Messenger.