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Ch. Resources

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§. 1. Prolegomena

Defences and principles and phrases and arguments

1. question-begging principle

2. spiritual sense applied to 1. Kingdom

2. Parables &c at large

3. hardness of heart

4. Discredit these, so must you all histories.

5. Presumptuous to penetrate mysteries.

6. Figurative language its importance, preferred to plain

7. Exclusion of all familiar modes of designation

 No possibility of preserving in the account given of the Resources, the order in which these topics are here presented.

Ch. Believer’s resources or defences

Ch. Principles and Phrases and Arguments employed by Believers, to serve as defences against informative and disprobative evidences and observations.

§. 2 Distinction between the temporal sense

§. 2 Phrase spiritual time: distinction between the spiritual sense of a discourse on the one hand and the temporal or carnal sense on the other.

§. 1. Persons whose the resources are—Jesus—his historians—their believers. Resources, what—Principles—phrases—arguments.

Jesus himself—his historians—their believers—in his time and in the present and other relatively modern times. Between these several descriptions of or sets of persons, it will on this occasion be at all times for clearness of conception be necessary, but frequently far from easy to bear in mind or so much as to mark out the distinction.

Principles or modes or courses of proceeding—phrases—arguments—between these three resources, for clearness of conception it may also be of use that the distinction should be borne in mind, for that purpose the ideas will be found of use, though when applied to practice the distinction may not in every instance be so clear as might be wished.
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    As to the distinction between Jesus or his historians in the one part and their believers in the other, between the resources correspondent to the one situation and the resources correspondent to the other, here too in relation to these points there will be in some particulars a coincidence in relation to others a difference and correspondent source of distinction. Almost every thing—be it principle be it phrases be it argument that was employed by the hero for gaining credence to his declarations or by the historians for gaining credence to the declarations ascribed to the hero, may at this time of day be employed for confirming and increasing for giving strength and increase to that credence. But what will readily be imagined, towards the production of that same effect so it is that in the situation occupied by the believers of modern times, principles, phrases and arguments may be found and employed, that were not in their nature incident to these original and anterior situations: defences for example against adverse arguments grounded in events or states of things posterior to those times.

    Of this or that principle, phrase or argument, of which though some, yet less use was made in those anterior, more use may have been found capable of being made in these posterior times.
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    As to principles (or general mode of proceeding)—phrases—arguments—between these distinguishable resources it is only with a view to promptness and clearness of conception that these distinctions have any claim to notice. By the thing itself and indication will in general be furnished of the class to which as above, it belongs, and where the matter should be matter of doubt, so is the nature and application if the resource be but manifest, any imperfection in the classification in which it is comprized, will be matter of little moment.
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    That in respect of the fulfilment of the conditions laid down by the above aphorism there lies in the part of every one of those discourses which by believers are brough to viewfuller2013-08-15T10:42:00 in the character of grounds of the religion of Jesus and of the faith or belief which they profess therein, a great not to say a total deficiency has place in a proposition to which—at any rate after what in that subject will presently be brought to view—it is not expected that any denial will by any person by opposed.

    But by that sense of that deficiency, and of the argument in disproof of the system of that belief which it affords—under that sense which has been so general and so acute, certain established forms of reply to the objection thus constituted have been devised employed and used.

    1. One is that the considerations by which this inferiority was produced are a mystery: and that it is presumptuous, and on that account by absurd and sinful for man to take upon him to pry onto the mysteries of God.

    2. Another is—that from these deficiencies the just conclusion is that the narratives in question were in the main correct and compleat, correct and compleat in a sufficient degree for the guidance of fact and practice—not that they were in respect of that practical and sole exclusively intricatly important quality untrustworthy: but that they were and in a superior degree trustworthy: for that to have marked them with those extreme marks of authenticity and thence of verity would have required the ministry of persons high in office, rank, or knowledge or all three; but the greater and higher portion possessed of those endorsements possessed by a man, the stronger and more reasonable would be the ground for suspicion, the ground for suspicion thus [...?] had been employed in giving to spurious documents the appearance of genuine ones— to false narratives the appearance of true ones.