110 The Fmida.mentat.'> Sacred Writings that were able to make wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. He goes on to tell us that ALL Script1,re is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for in struction in righteousness, in order that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. When you go back to the Old Testament and its praise of the Word cf God you will find the qualities of inspiration are just the same. "The law of the Lord is perfect", etc. Those are the qualities which the inspired Book is alleged to sustain qualities which only a true inspiration of God's Spirit could give; qualities beyond which we surely do not need anything more. Does anyone doubt that the Bible possesses these qualities? Look at its structure; look at its completeness; look at it in the clearness and fullness and holiness of its teachings ; look at it in its sufficiency to guide every soul that truly seeks light unto the saving knowledge of God. Take the Book as a whole, in its whole purpose, its whole spirit, its whole aim and tendency, and the whole setting of it, and ask, Is there not manifest the power which you can only trace back, as it traces back itself, to God's Holy Spirit really in the men who wrote it?
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