On Christian Doctrine

— A Classic — Includes Active Table of Contents — Includes Religious Illustrations. There are two things on which all interpretation of Scripture depends: the mode of ascertaining the proper meaning and the mode of making known the meaning when it is ascertained. We shall treat first of the mode of ascertaining next of the mode of making known the meaning;—a great and arduous undertaking and one that if difficult to carry out it is I fear presumptuous to enter upon. And presumptuous it would undoubtedly be if I were counting on my own strength; but since my hope of accomplishing the work rests on Him who has already supplied me with many thoughts on this subject I do not fear but that He will go on to supply what is yet wanting when once I have begun to use what He has already given. For a possession which is not diminished by being shared with others if it is possessed and not shared is not yet possessed as it ought to be possessed. The Lord saith “Whosoever hath to him shall be given.”. Aeterna Press