3. On the other hand, if a wider class of phenomena is to be dealt with by this theory, the reader is requested to observe that we involve ourselves in a gross contradiction; for we forsake the very principle on which it pretends to be built. The theory set out by reminding us that "the office of the Bible is to make men wise unto Salvation,"--not to teach physical Science, nor to deal with facts in chronology and the like: and the plea was allowed. But the theory which was devised to account for one class of phenomena is now most unwarrantably applied to account for another. We have travelled into a widely different subject-matter,--namely, _Divinity proper!_ Let it therefore be respectfully asked,--If the Inspiration which the Apostles enjoyed did not preserve them against unsound inferences in respect of _Holy Scripture_; and illogical, inconclusive argumentation in _things Divine_;--pray, of what use was it? We have not been reviewing a set of _Geological_ mistakes on the part of the great Apostle. To Physical Science, he has scarcely so much as a single allusion. He deals with _Christian Doctrine_; with _Divinity_, properly so called; and _with that only_. Pray, was not Inspiration a sufficient guide to him, _there_? 4. It is high time also to remind the reader that although the office of the Bible, confessedly, is "to make men wise unto Salvation," it does not by any means follow that _that_ is its _only_ office. In other words, we have no right to assume that we know all the possible ends for which the Bible was designed; and to lay it down, as if it were an ascertained fact, that it was _not_ designed to enlighten men in matters of Chronology, History, and the like; seeing, on the one hand, that all the evidence we are able to adduce in support of such an opinion, does not establish so much as a faint presumption that any part of Scripture is uninspired; and seeing that, on the other, as a plain matter of fact, historical details constitute so large a part of the contents of the Bible; and that the sacred volume is _the sole depository_ of the History and Chronology of the World for by far the largest portion of the interval since that World's Creation. 5. In passing, it may also be reasonably declared, that it is to take a very derogatory view of the result of the HOLY SPIRIT's influence, to suppose that imperfections and inaccuracies can freely abound,--nay, can exist at all,--in a Revelation which the same HOLY SPIRIT is believed to have inspired. They ought surely to be _demonstrated_ to exist, before we are called upon to listen to the apologies which have been invented to account for their existence!