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infallible teacher does not make us all infallible learners. We are
blessed with divine inspiration, but we are not converted into machines.
Inspiration does not make us absolutely perfect either in knowledge or
virtue, still less does it make us perfect all at once. We shall learn
enough, and we shall learn fast enough, if we are faithful; but we shall
never be perfect or infallible in our knowledge in this world.
As the subject of Bible inspiration is one of great importance, and as
it is at present exciting the greatest interest, it may not be amiss
here to give a few quotations from writers who have been led to see the
doctrine in the same light as ourselves. I am unable to give the names
of some of the authors from whose works I quote, but they are all
connected with one or other of the great evangelical denominations of
the day.
The following is from "BASES OF BELIEF," by Edward Miall, one
of the best books on the truth and divinity of Christianity I have had
the happiness to read. Mr. Miall is a Congregational minister, editor of
the Nonconformist Newspaper, and Member of Parliament. As his remarks
are lengthy, we are obliged to abridge them in some cases.
'It is not needed, in order to show satisfactorily that there is a
divine revelation _in_ the record, to prove that the record is _itself_
divine.
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