The Doctrine of a Future Life as Contained in the Old Testament Scriptures: A Discourse Delivered in Wesley Chapel, Camborne, July 28th, 1874, in ... Being the Fifth Lecture of the Foundatio - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Doctrine of a Future Life as Contained in the Old Testament Scriptures: A Discourse Delivered in Wesley Chapel, Camborne, July 28th, 1874, in Connection With the Assembling of the Wesleyan-Methodist Conference; Being the Fifth Lecture of the Foundation of the Late John Fernley, Esq.

In speaking thus, we do not confound things which differ. We shall pay no homage to the professed sceptic. He is commonly the smallest and most self-suficicient of mankind; and we are as little careful to satisfy his sentimental doubts, as we are disposed to recognize his principles, or adopt his methods. Neither do we accept - on the contrary, we utterly disallow and repudiate - a number of conclusions, touching the origin, constitution, and character of certain books of the Old Testament, at which the Biblical critics of the so called advanced school claim to have arrived, and which, as they declare, the ignorant, the prejudiced, and the interested alone can scruple.

For example, according to the critics in question, the books of Moses are a blundering patchwork of fragments taken from different sources, and seamed together by various hands, at times long posterior to the Mosaic epoch; the book of Deuteronomy, in particular, being clearly written not long before the Babylonish The last twenty-seven chapters of the prophecy of Isaiah, again, are no work, it is affirmed, of the mind and pen which produced the first thirty-nine chapters; they are the composition of an unknown author - call him the Pseudo or deutero-isaiah.

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