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The Fundamentals Then the third and what completes the Triangle, and makes its sides eternally, divinely equal — Infinite Atonement —an Infinite Saviour— God on the cross making answer to God on the throne—my Jesus—my Refuge—my Everlasting Jehovah. By these three Infinites—especially this last—th is Infinite Atonement, for which my whole being cries out its last cry of exhaustion—by this third side of the stupendous Triangle —t he side which, left to myself, I could never make out—the Bible proves itself the soul’s Geometry, the one Eternal Mathematics, the true Revelation of God. We take the ground that these three things—Guilt, God, Atonement—set thus in star-like apposition and conjunction, speak from the sky, more piercingly than stars do, saying: “Sinner and sufferer, this Revelation is Divine!” We take the open ground that a single stray leaf of God’s Word, found by the wayside by one who never had seen it before, would convince him at once that the strange and the wonderful words were those of his God—were Divine. The Scriptures are their own self-evidence. We take the ground that the sun requires no critic—truth no diving-bell. When the sun shines, he shines the sun. When God speaks, His evidence is in the accent of His words. How did the prophets of old know, when God spoke to them, that it was God? Did they subject the voice, that shook their every bone, and make their flesh dissolve upon them, to a critical test ? Did they put God, so to say—as some of our moderns would seem to have done—into a crucible, into a chemist’s retort, in order to certify that He was God? Did they find it necessary to hold the handwriting of God in front of the blow-pipe of anxious philosophical examination, in order to bring out and to make the invisible, visible? The very suggestion is madness. The Scriptures are their own self-evidence. The refusal
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