But if that be not true,
what follows? That God has not done the noble acts which men
thought he had, and therefore that God is not as noble as men
thought he was; that men have actually fancied for themselves a
better God than the God who exists already.
Absurd.
Absurd, truly; and if you choose to call it by a harder name still,
you have a right to do so.
Do not you think that God must be better, not worse; more generous,
not less; more condescending, not less; more just, not less; more
helpful, not less, than man can fancy or describe? Are not the
riches of Christ unsearchable, and the mercies of the Lord
boundless? Is he not able and willing to do exceeding abundantly
beyond all that we can ask or think? Did not even St. Paul say that
he only knew in part and prophesied in part? And must it not be
true of the whole Bible what the beloved apostle St. John says of
his own Gospel, 'And there are many other things which Jesus did,
the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even
the world itself could not contain the books that should be
written?'
Bear that in mind, remembering always that the God of the Old
Testament is the God of the New likewise; and whenever you read,
either in the Old or New Testament, of the noble acts of the Lord,
say boldly, as millions of hearts have said already, when the good
news of the Bible came to them, 'This is so beautiful that it must
be true.
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