But I may not proceed any further, or my pages will equal in extent those of the gentleman already named. Indeed, to follow that most confused of thinkers, and crooked of disputants, through all his perverse pages; to expose his habitual paltry evasive dodging,--his shifting equivocations,--his misapplications of Scripture,--his unworthy insinuations,--his plaintive puerilities of thought and sentiment;--would require a thick volume.--If Mr. Jowett does not deny the Personality of the HOLY GHOST, he ought to be thoroughly ashamed of himself for penning sentences which can lead to no other inference. For he ought to know that when men talk of words "receiving _a more exact meaning than they will truly bear_;" and of what "is _spoken in a figure_ being construed with the severity of a logical statement, while _passages of an opposite tenour are overlooked or set aside_:"--(p. 360.) men mean to repudiate the doctrine which those words are thought to convey; not to imply their acceptance of it.--So again, if Mr. Jowett holds the doctrine of Original Sin, he ought to be heartily ashamed of himself for having insinuated that it depends "on _two figurative expressions of St. Paul to which there is no parallel in any other part of Scripture_." (p. 361.)--Nor, however moderate his attainments as a teacher of Divinity, ought he to be capable of putting forth such a notorious misstatement as that the doctrine of Infant Baptism _rests upon a verse in the Acts_ (xvi. 33,)--which verse has really _nothing whatever to do with the question_[231]. (p. 360.) Professor Jowett shuts up his Essay with a passage which, for a certain amount of tender pathos in the sentiment, has been often quoted, and sometimes admired, He says:-- "The suspicion or difficulty which attends critical inquiries is no reason for doubting their value. The Scripture nowhere leads us to suppose that the circumstance of all men speaking well of us is any ground for supposing that we are acceptable in the sight of God. And there is no reason why the condemnation of others should be witnessed to by our own conscience. Perhaps it may be true that, owing to the jealousy or fear of some, the reticence of others, the terrorism of a few, we may not always find it easy to regard these subjects with calmness and judgment. But, on the other hand, these accidental circumstances have nothing to do with the question at issue; they cannot have the slightest influence on the meaning of words, or on the truth of facts....