Excerpt from The Papal and Hierarchical System: Compared With the Religion of the New Testament When Paul declared that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, he made no distinctions between the different kinds of writings of which the Old Testament is com posed. Independently of all considerations respecting the writers - their individual cha racter or condition of mind, or the degree of consciousness which they severally enjoyed of a divine influence - he simply avers that the writings which they produced were given by inspiration of God - a view of the subject which is fully substantiated by the example and authority of our Saviour himself. We cannot for a moment doubt that the ia spiration of the apostles and evangelists had the same result; and that their works also whether historical, prophetical, or didactic are, like the books of the Old Testament, all divine, and all equal in point of authority. It is matter of satisfaction and thankfulness, that the attempts which have been made by many modern critics to weaken the Scriptural view of the inspiration of Scripture itself the dis tinctions which some have drawn between part and part, and the notion that inspiration is more or less effective according to the na ture of the subject in hand - have very much disappeared All such wire-drawing has proved itself to be a failure and Christians in the nineteenth century are evidently brought to a confirmed agreement, that the Holy Scriptures, from the beginning of Gene sis to the end of Revelation - the actual writ ings the bulk, substance, and totality of the book - are, as the early Quakers used often to express themselves. The worms or Goo.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.