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PART I.

TOMLINE'S ELEMENTS.

B

CHAPTER I.

Genuineness, Authenticity, and Inspiration of the Old Testament.

Christian Theology teaches from Revelation the knowledge of God, his dispensations to men, and their duties.

The Bible, or Scriptures, are the only authentic source of information.

The word Scriptures means writings; but it is applied now exclusively to those books which contain the Revealed Will of God; it is thus used in the Gospels, Acts, and Epistles *; thereby proving, that in our Saviour's time, the Scriptures denoted the books received by the Jews as their rule of faith.

The writings of the Apostles and Evangelists complete the sacred collection, which Christians, by way of eminence, call Bible (Bißλos), the Book, or Book of books.

The Bible is divided into two parts, the Old and New Testament.

* John v. 29. Acts xxviii. 18. 1 Pet. ii. 6.

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