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    Thoughts on a Revelation
    Thoughts on a Revelation
    Thoughts on a Revelation
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    Thoughts on a Revelation

    By S. J. (Samuel John) Jerram

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Thoughts on a Revelation - S. J. (Samuel John) Jerram

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      Title: Thoughts on a Revelation

      Author: Samuel John Jerram

      Release Date: March 5, 2009 [eBook #28256]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THOUGHTS ON A REVELATION***

      Transcribed from the 1862 Wertheim, Macintosh and Hunt edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      THOUGHTS

      on

      A REVELATION.

      by

      S. J. JERRAM, M.A.,

      vicar of chobham, surrey.

      london:

      WERTHEIM, MACINTOSH AND HUNT,

      24, Paternoster Row,

      and 23, Holles Street, Cavendish Square.

      1862.

      ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS.

      THOUGHTS ON A REVELATION.

      Few persons can have observed attentively the various phases of public opinion on religious subjects during the last twenty years or more, without noticing a growing tendency to the accumulation of difficulties on the subject of Revelation.  Geology, ethnology, mythical interpretation, critical investigation, and inquiries of other kinds, have raised their several difficulties; and, in consequence, infidels have rejoiced, candid inquirers have been perplexed, and even those who have held with firmness decided views on the distinctive character of the inspiration of the Bible, have sometimes found it difficult to satisfy their minds entirely, and to see clearly the grounds of their conclusions.

      The writer of these pages does not propose to attempt a detailed reply to the various difficulties which have been raised.  Answers to objections arising from the pursuit of particular sciences are most effectually given by those, who have made those sciences their study; nor can there be any doubt that, if the book of nature and the Bible spring from the same source, an increasing acquaintance with both will tend to show their harmony with each other, and to dispel the perplexities which have arisen from an imperfect acquaintance with either of them.  It may be observed, too, that, as it requires special knowledge on the part of a writer to cope with special difficulties; so also does it demand acquirements, but rarely found, on the part of the reader, to appreciate the real value, both of the objections and answers which may be made on geological, critical, or other special grounds.

      The writer thinks that there is another method of reply—a method which consists in giving as clear a view as can be had of the real character of the subject against which the objections are made; and this is the kind of answer which he proposes to attempt.  The man who has a distinct and well defined knowledge of chemical, mathematical, or any other science, will not be greatly perplexed with difficulties which may be brought from other sciences, touching upon that with which he is acquainted.  The knowledge which he possesses of his own particular science will enable him, in some instances, to perceive at once the weakness of

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