[300] "Holding," (says Hugh Miller,) "that the _six_ days of the Mosaic account were not natural days, but lengthened periods, I find myself called on, as a geologist, to account for but three out of the six. Of the period during which light was created; of the period during which a firmament was made to separate the waters from the waters; or of the period during which the two great lights of the earth, with the other heavenly bodies, became visible from the Earth's surface;--we need expect to find no record in the rocks."--_Testimony_, &c., p. 134.--This is ingenious, and is piously meant. But the first three days remain to be accounted for _by somebody_, all the same. If the last three days represent "lengthened periods," so, I suppose, do the _first_ three. [301] Exod. xx. 11. [302] _Essays and Reviews_, p. 252. [303] _Ibid._ [304] _Id._ p. 253. [305] _Id._ p. 252. [306] Pattison's _The Earth and the World_, p. 99. [307] Col. ii. 3. [308] Josh. x. 12. [309] Prov. iii. 20. [310] St. John iii. 8. [311] St. John iii. 5. [312] St. Matth. xxvi. 26. [313] St. John viii. 58. [314] St. John x. 30. [315] Ps. xciv. 9. [316] On this subject, the reader is referred to Serm. VII. [317] Ps. xcii. 4. [318] Cowper. [319] Eph. iii. 18. [320] This paragraph is mostly copied from a Sermon (MS.) preached before the University by the late Professor Hussey, Oct. 12, 1856. [321] Professor Phillips refers me to a paper by Mr. Prestwich in the _Proceedings of the Royal Society_, 1859, vol. x. No. 35, p. 58. Also in the _Transactions of the R. S._ for 1860, p. 308. [322] I allude to the supposed disclosures of Egyptian monuments. [323] I allude to a recent work on the Origin of Species. [324] The reader is requested to read what Bishop Pearson has most eloquently written on this subject. It will be found in the Appendix (B). [325] 1 Cor. xv. 47. [326] Ibid. xv. 22, &c. [327] Πίστις _does not occur once_ in St. John's Gospel: πιστεύω (which is found about thirty-five times, in all, in the first three Gospels,) occurs about _one hundred times_, in the Gospel of St. John alone. [328] St. Luke xxiii. 46, (quoting Ps. xxxi. 5:) words which are alluded to in 1 St. Pet. iv. 19. [329] Ps. cxlvi. 5,--words quoted by the early Church of Jerusalem, Acts iv. 24. SERMON III.[330] * * * * * INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE.--GOSPEL DIFFICULTIES.--THE WORD OF GOD INFALLIBLE.--OTHER SCIENCES SUBORDINATE TO THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE. * * * * * 2 Tim. iii. 16. _All Scripture is given by inspiration of God._