The "English Churchman," speaking of clergymen who have "_doubts_," said, that any who are not throughly persuaded "_that the Scriptures cannot in any particular be untrue_," should leave the Church.
The Rev. E. Garbett, M. A., in a sermon preached before the University of Oxford, speaking of the "_historical truth_" of the Bible, said:
"It is the clear teaching of those doctrinal formularies, to which we of the Church of England have expressed our solemn assent, _and no honest interpretation of her language can get rid of it_."
"In all consistent reason, _we must accept the whole of the inspired autographs, or reject the whole_."
Dr. Baylee, Principal of a theological university--_St. Aiden's College_--at Birkenhead, England, and author of a "Manual," called Baylee's "_Verbal Inspiration_," written "_chiefly for the youths of St. Aiden's College_," makes use of the following words, in that work:
"_The whole Bible_, as a revelation, is a declaration of the mind of God towards his creatures on all the subjects of which the Bible treats."
"_The Bible is God's word_, in the same sense as if he had made use of no human agent, but had _Himself spoken it_."
"The Bible cannot be less than verbally inspired. _Every word, every syllable, every letter_, is just what it would be, had God spoken from heaven without any human intervention."
"Every scientific statement is infallibly correct, all its history and narrations of every kind, _are without any inaccuracy_."[18:1]
A whole volume might be filled with such quotations, not only from religious works and journals published in England, but from those published in the United States of America.[18:2]
[1:1] The idea that the sun, moon and stars were _set_ in the firmament was entertained by most nations of antiquity, but, as strange as it may appear, Pythagoras, the Grecian philosopher, who flourished from 540 to 510 B. C.--as well as other Grecian philosophers--taught that the sun was placed in the centre of the universe, _with the planets roving round it in a circle_, thus making day and night. (See Knight's Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 59, and note.) The Buddhists anciently taught that the universe is composed of limitless systems or worlds, called _sakwalas_.