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Title: The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible

Author: R. Heber Newton

Release Date: May 6, 2004 [EBook #12282]

Language: English

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The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible

By

R. Heber Newton.

"In it _is contained_ God's true Word."--_Homily on the Holy
Scriptures._

New York:
John W. Lovell Company,
14 & 16 Vesey Street.

Works by the Same Author.

The Morals. 1. Vol. 12mo, cloth, gilt, $1.00
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John W. Lovell Co.
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Copyright, 1883

Contents.

I. The Unreal Bible.
II. The Real Bible.
III. The Wrong Uses of the Bible.
IV. The Wrong Uses of the Bible.
V. The Right Critical Use of the Bible.
VI. The Right Historical Use of the Bible.
VII. The Right Ethical and Spiritual Use of the Bible.

"The Gospel doth not so much consist _in verbis_ as _in virtute_."

_John Smith_.

"Liberty in prophesying, without prescribing authoritatively to other
men's consciences, and becoming lords and masters of their faith--a
necessity derived from the consideration of the difficulty of Scripture
in questions controverted, and the uncertainty of any internal medium
of interpretation."

_Jeremy Taylor_.

"To those who follow their reason in the interpretation of the
Scriptures, God will either give his grace for assistance to find the
truth, or His pardon if they miss it."

_Lord Falkland_.

[Rational Theology in England in the Seventeenth Century; John Tulloch,
D.D., II: 181, I:398, I:160]

Preface.

It has been my custom for several years to give occasionally a series of
sermons, having in view some systematic instruction of the people
committed to my care. Such a series of sermons on the Bible had been for
some time in my min