EVIDENCES INTERNAL AND EXPERIMENTAL. 1. External Evidences Important, but not Indispensable to True Faith--2. Internal Evidences--View which the Bible gives of God's Character--3. Code of Morals in the Bible--It is Spiritual, Reasonable, and Comprehensive--Obedience to It the Sum of all Goodness--4. All Parts of the Bible in Harmony with Each Other--5. Power of the Bible over the Conscience--6. Argument from Personal Experience--7. From the Character of Jesus--8. From General Experience--The Love of Jesus the Mightiest Principle of Action--Persecution first winnows, then strengthens the Church--The Church corrupted and weakened by Worldly Alliances--9. The Gospel gives an Inward Victory over Sin--It purifies and elevates Society--10. Its Self-purifying Power--11. The Argument summed up * * * * * PART II. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. FIRST DIVISION--GENERAL INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER XIII. NAMES AND EXTERNAL FORM OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 1. Origin and Meaning of the Word Bible--Jewish Designations of the Old Testament--2. Origin of the Terms Old and New Testament--Earlier Latin Term--2. The Unity--Scripture has its Ground in Divine Inspiration--Its Great Diversity in Respect to Human Composition--4. Classification and Arrangement of the Old Testament Books--Classification of the Hebrew: of the Greek Version of the Seventy; of the Latin Vulgate--No One of these follows entirely the Order of Time--5. Original Mode of Writing called Continuous--6. Ancient Sections--Open and Closed; Larger Sections called Parshiyoth and Haphtaroth--7. Chapters and Verses--Caution in Respect to our Modern Chapters CHAPTER XIV. THE ORIGINAL TEXT AND ITS HISTORY. 1. Chaldee Passages in the Hebrew Scriptures--Divisions of the Hebrew and Cognate Languages--2. The Assyrian or Square Character not Primitive--Jewish Tradition respecting its Origin--3. The Hebrew Alphabet and its Character--4. Change in the Language of the Hebrew Nation--5. Introduction of the Vowel-Points and Accents--The Question of their Antiquity--6. Jewish Rules for the Guidance of Copyists--Their Deep Reverence for the Sacred Text--Its Uncorrupt Transmission to Us--7. Age and Character of Hebrew Manuscripts--8. Form of Hebrew Manuscripts--the Public in Rolls, the Private in the Book Form, Poetical Passages, Columns, Pen and Ink Accompaniments--9. The Samaritan Pentateuch CHAPTER XV.