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A TREATISE ON THE HISTORICAL TRUTH

OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

BY A. MOODY STUART, D.D.

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AUTHOR OF " AN EXPOSITION OF THE SONG OF SOLOMON," ETC.

LONDON

JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET
1884

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PREFATORY NOTE.

THE Sacred Books whose Historical truth is examined in this volume belong to the Old Testament; and their attestation by the New is at the same time adduced as one of the best proofs of their Historical character. The foundation of all our hope is in the whole Bible being true to Itself; and the sureness of this foundation the Author has in this work set himself to prove.

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Recent hasty speculations emanating from within the Christian Church may not have "overthrown," but they have shaken "the faith of some in the supreme and absolute truth of the Divine Oracles in their Legislation, in their History, in their Prophecy; and the Author trusts that the arguments he has adduced may either singly or by their cumulative force assist in removing the doubts of the perplexed, and establishing them in their most holy faith. Had these speculations been presented only by critics who deny the great verities

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of the Christian faith, their influence would have been neither so seductive nor so widely diffused.

The present volume consists of previous contributions to this great subject with considerable and important additions in nearly every portion of the work; whilst pains have been taken to mould together the parts more nearly related to each other, and to combine the whole into one treatise. Of a subtle physical conjecture, now abandoned, it has been recorded that "the theory was obviously forced by the inquirer on the facts, instead of being forced by the facts on the inquirer, as a true theory should be; and may now be regarded as exploded." The description is exactly applicable to the theories framed for overturning the truth of the Bible in its Historical form; and the same result, if not already apparent, is sure to follow in God's own time.

In all generations God will vindicate His own Word, "which liveth and abideth for ever."

EDINBURGH, April 1884.

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