[227] 2 Pet. ii. 1: Rev. xiv. 4: 1 Cor. vi. 20. [228] 1 Pet. i. 19: Rev. v. 9: Gal. iii. 13. [229] Heb. vii. 25: 1 John ii. 1, 2. [230] Heb. ii. 10.: v. 9. [231] 2 Cor. v. 19: Rom. v. 10: Eph. ii. 16. [232] Heb. ii. 14. See also a remarkable passage in the book of Job, xxxiii. 24. [233] Phil. ii. 8, 9: John iii. 35, and v. 22, 23. [234] Rev. v. 12, 13. [235] John vi. 14. [236] P. 188, &c. [237] Eph. iv. 12, 13. [238] John xiv. 2, 3: Rev. iii. 21, and xi. 15. [239] 2 Thess. i. 8. [240] Heb. ix. 26. [241] [Consult MAGEE, on Atonement: STAPFERI Institutiones: TURRETIN, De Satisfactione: CHALMERS, Discourses: OWEN, Satis. of Christ.] [242] P. 194, &c. [243] [This objection is ably urged by TINDALL. The answer of our author is complete. We should remember, that twice in the history of mankind, revelation _has been_ universal. The first pair, and the occupants of the ark, comprised the whole population. But how soon was light rejected! Christianity is universal, in nature and intention; is to become so in fact; and according to a very probable construction of prophecy, will continue to be universal, for three hundred and sixty thousand years.] [244] [May not this be a principal object of the Apocalypse? As the book of Daniel furnished a constant and powerful support to the faith of the Jew, by the constant development of prophecy, so the Apocalypse, rightly studied must powerfully, and through all time, support the faith of the Christian by the continual unfolding and verification of its predictions.] [245] 2 Cor. viii. 12. [246] Introduction. [247] Part I. chap. v. [248] Part I. chap. iv. and pp. 156, 157. [249] Pp. 156, 157. [250] Dan. xii. 10. See also Isa. xxix. 13, 14: Matt. vi. 23, and xi. 25, and xiii. 11, 12: John iii. 19, and v. 44: 1 Cor. ii. 14, and 2 Cor. iv. 4: 2 Tim. iii. 13; and that affectionate as well as authoritative admonition, so very many times inculcated, _He that hath ears to hear, let him hear_. Grotius saw so strongly the thing intended in these and other passages of Scripture of the like sense, as to say, that the proof given us of Christianity was less than it might have been, for this very purpose: _Ut ita sermo Evangelii tanquam lapis esset Lydius ad quem ingenia sanabilia explorarentur_. De Ver. R. C. lib. ii. [So that the Gospel should be a touchstone, to test the honesty of men’s dispositions.] [251] Pp. 100, 257, &c. [252] [See WITSII Meletemeta, Diss. IV.: PFAFII Disput.: CAMPBELL on Miracles: DOUGLASS’ Criterion: FARMER’S Dissertations: PALEY’S Evid.: TAYLOR’S Apol. of Ben Mordecai: TUCKER’S Light of Nat.: WATSON’S Tracts, vol. iv.: JORTIN’S Sermons: Bp. FLEETWOOD’S Essays: BOYLE Lectures: LARDNER’S Credibility.]