TITLE PAGE

INTRODUCTION BY THE TRANSLATOR.

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR.

CHAPTER I.

DEFINITION OF THEOPNEUSTY.

CHAPTER II.

OBJECTIONS EXAMINED.

SECTION I.—Individuality of the sacred writers, deeply impressed on their books.

SECTION II.—The Translations.

SECTION III.—The employment of the Septuagint.

SECTION IV.—The Variations.

SECTION V.—Errors of reasoning or of doctrine.

SECTION VI.—Errors in the narrations; contradictions in the facts.

SECTION VII.—Errors contrary to the Philosophy of Nature.

SECTION VIII.—The very acknowledgment of St. Paul.

CHAPTER III.

EXAMINATION OF THE EVASIONS

SECTION I.—Could Inspiration regard the thoughts, without extending also to the language?

SECTION II.—Should the historical books be excluded from the inspired portions of the Bible?

SECTION III.—Would the apparent insignificance of certain details of the Bible, justify us in separating them from the inspired portion.

CHAPTER IV.

OF THE USE OF SACRED CRITICISM, IN ITS RELATIONS TO THEOPNEUSTY.

SECTION I.—Sacred Criticism is a scholar, not a judge.

SECTION II.—Let-Sacred Criticism be a historian, and not a conjuror,

SECTION III.—Sacred Criticism is not the God, but the door-keeper of the temple.

CHAPTER V.

DIDACTIC SUMMARY OF THE DOCTRINE OF THEOPNEUSTY,

SECTION I.—Retrospect.

SECTION II.—Short Catechetical Essay on the principal points of the doctrine.

CHAPTER VI.

SCRIPTURAL PROOF OF THE THEOPNEUSTY.

SECTION I.—All Scripture is Theopneustic.

SECTION II.—All the words of the Prophets are given by God.

SECTION III.—All the Scriptures of the Old Testament are Prophetic.

SECTION IV.—All the writings of the New Testament are Prophetic

SECTION V.—The examples of the Apostles and of their Master attest, that, for them, all the words of the holy books are given by God.

CHAPTER VII.

CONCLUSION.