=3=. When the Holy One inferred the Resurrection of the Dead from the words spoken to Moses "in the bush[430];"--when He proved that CHRIST is not the son of David, because "David in spirit calls Him 'LORD[431];'"--and when He shewed from a clause in the 6th verse of the lxxxiind Psalm, ("I said ye are gods,") that it was not unlawful for Himself to claim the title of SON of GOD[432];--I humbly think that the argumentation is of such a nature as would not produce conviction in captious minds cast in a modern mould[433]. I desire not to dwell longer upon this subject; and only hope in what I have ventured to say concerning some of the recorded sayings of Him to whose creative Power and Goodness I am indebted for the exercise of my own reason,--I have not written amiss. But the point of what I am urging is, that I defy any one to bring a charge of faulty logic against passages in St. Paul's Epistles which might not, _with the same show of reason_, be brought against certain of our LORD's recorded sayings. =4=. When the Chief Priests and Scribes remonstrated with our LORD because of the children crying in the Temple; and asked Him,--"Hearest Thou what these say?" He replied,--"Yea, have ye never read, 'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise[434]?'" ... Now, this quotation from the viiith Psalm is what an 'Essayist or Reviewer' would have pronounced irrelevant. =5=. It seems clear from Gen. ii. 24, that _Adam_ was the author of the words, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother," &c. And yet, our LORD (in St. Matth. xix. 4, 5,) as unmistakeably seems to make GOD the Speaker. An Evangelist or an Apostle would be thought here to have made a slip of memory. =6=. In St. John viii. 47, the following words occur. "He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God." This passage (as already pointed out[435],) has been adduced by one who now occupies an Archiepiscopal throne, as containing a logical fallacy. Many more examples might be adduced: but these will suffice. It is plain that when the like phenomena are observed in the writings of Apostles and Evangelists, we need not, in order to account for them, have recourse to any theory of partial or imperfect Inspiration; since nothing of the kind is supposed necessary when they occur in the Discourses of our LORD.--As much as I care to offer on the subject of _Inspired Reasoning_ will be found in the course of the Sixth of these Sermons, where the Doctrine of 'Accommodation' is considered. * * * * *