[55] Ver. 1,--St. John xii. 38. Rom. x. 16. Ver. 4,--St. Matth. viii. 17. Ver. 4 to 11,--1 St. Pet. ii. 24, 25. Ver. 7 and 8,--Acts viii. 32. Ver. 12,--St. Mark xv. 28. St. Luke xxii. 37. [56] Mal. iv. 5. [57] St. Luke i. 17. [58] As the Fathers generally teach. See Brown's _Ordo Sæclorum_, pp. 702-3, &c., &c. [59] And yet,--"I go to prepare _a place_ for you!"--St. John xiv. 2. [60] See, for example, p. 60, (_lower half_,) p. 62, (_middle_,) &c. [61] Comp. p. 45. [62] Col. ii. 11, 12. Rom. ii. 29. Phil. iii. 3, &c. [63] _Edinburgh Review_, (Ap. 1861,) p. 429. [64] _Analogy_, P. II. ch. ii., _ad fin._ [65] _Analogy_, P. II. ch. iii., _ad init._ [66] Van Mildert's _Historical View of the Rise and Progress of Infidelity_, &c. Serm. xxi., (ed. 1806,) vol. ii. pp. 313-17. [67] "Columbus' prediction of the eclipse to the native islanders, was as true an argument to them as if the event had really been supernatural." p. 115. [68] St. Mark viii. 19, 20. [69] St. John ix. [70] St. John xi. 44. [71] Consider St. John iii. 2, (referring to ii. 23 and iv. 45.) So ix. 16: x. 21 and 38: xiv. 10, 11. Also xv. 24; and consider St Luke vii. 16: also 21, 22: St. Matth. xii. 22, 23: St. John vii. 31: xii. 17-19. [72] St. John v. 44. Comp. vii. 17: viii. 12. St. Matth. v. 8. Ps. xix. 8: cxix. 100. Also, Ecclus. i. 26: xxi. 11.--"There is," (says an excellent living writer,) "scarcely any doctrine or precept of our SAVIOUR more distinctly and strongly stated, than that the capacity for judging of, and for believing the Truths of Christianity, depends upon Moral Goodness, and the practice of Virtue."--Let us hear our own Hooker on this subject:--"We find by experience that although Faith be an intellectual habit of the mind, and have her seat in the understanding, yet an evil moral disposition obstinately wedded to the love of darkness dampeth the very light of heavenly illumination, and permitted not the Mind to see what doth shine before it."--_Eccl. Pol._, B. v.c. lxiii. § 2. [73] St. John xi. 44. [74] P. 113. The italics are in the original. [75] See the _Quarterly Review_, (on Prof. Baden Powell's "Order of Nature,")--for Oct. 1859, (No. 212,) pp. 420-3. [76] p. 169.--"Priests have neither been, as some would represent, a set of deliberate conspirators against the free thoughts of mankind; nor, on the other hand," &c. _Ibid._--How partial becomes the judgment, when we have to discuss the merits of our own order! [77] _Ans._ Clearly in the relation of a blessing which has by all means to be communicated to them. [78] _Ans._ Certainly there is. Those which most obviously present themselves are such as the following:--St. Matth. ix. 37, 38: xxviii. 19, 20. St. Luke xxiv. 47. Acts ii. 38, 39, &c. [79] _Analogy_, P. II. c. vi. [80] Rom. v. 12. [81] 1 Cor. xv. 22. [82] Eph. ii. 3. [83] _Analogy_, P. II. c. v. note (d). [84] Col. i. 23.--p. 155. [85] See Nelson's _Life of Bp. Bull_, p. 245.