7. Still better worthy of notice, in this connexion, is the singular fact (which will also be found adverted to in another place[179],) that the Old and New Testaments alike profess to be a History of _Earthly_ events from a _Heavenly_ point of view. The writers of either Covenant claim to know _what GOD did_[180]; how characters and events appeared _in His sight_[181]: they profess to find themselves in a familiar, and altogether extraordinary relation with the unseen world[182]. Thus, Moses begins the Bible with an august account of the great Six Days,--when GOD was alone in Creation; the unwitnessed Agent, and Author of all things:--while St. John the Divine, concluding the inspired Canon, relates that he was "in the Spirit on the LORD'S Day;" and heard behind him "a great Voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last[183]." ... "The general design of Scripture," (says Bishop Butler,) "may be said to be, to give us an account of the World, in this one single view,--_as GOD'S World: by which it appears essentially distinguished from all other books, as far as I have found, except such as are copied from it_[184]." 8. And _yet_ the grand external characteristic feature of the Bible remains unnoticed! The one distinctive feature of the Bible, is _this_,--that the four-fold Gospel, _as a matter of fact_, exhibits to us, the WORD "made flesh:" and, (O marvel of marvels!) suffers us to hear His voice, and look upon His form, and observe His actions. It does more. The New Testament professes to be, and is, the complement of the Old. The promise of CHRIST, solemnly, and repeatedly,--"at sundry times and divers manners,"--given in the one, is fulfilled in the other. Henceforth they are no more twain, for they have been by GOD Himself joined together; and the subject of both is none other than our SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST. Enough surely has been already adduced to warrant a reasonable man in refusing to accept Professor Jowett's repeated asseveration that the Bible is "to be interpreted like any other book." A Book which proves on examination to be so _wholly unlike every other book_,--so entirely _sui generis_,--may surely well create an _à priori_ suspicion that it is not to be interpreted either, after any ordinary fashion. But the grand consideration of all is _still_ behind! The _one_ circumstance which effectually refutes the view of the Reverend Professor, remains yet to be specified; namely, that THE BIBLE PROFESSES TO BE INSPIRED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. The HOLY GHOST is again and again declared _to speak_ therein, διά, "_by the instrumentality_," "_by the mouth_," of Man. In other words, _GOD, not Man, professes to be the Author of the Bible_!