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Phases of Faith

CHAPTER IX
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He quoted bits of it, very sparingly, never setting before his readers my continuous thought, but giving his own free versions and deductions.

His fullest quotation stood thus, given only in an after-chapter:--"What God reveals to us, he reveals _within_, through the medium of our moral and spiritual senses." "Christianity itself has practically confessed what is theoretically clear, _( you must take Mr.Newman's word for both,)_[7] that an authoritative external revelation of moral and spiritual truth is essentially impossible to man." "No book-revelation can, without sapping its own pedestal, &c.

&c." These three sentences are what Mr.Rogers calls the three cracked bells, and thinks by raising a laugh, to hide his fraud I have carefully looked through the whole of his dialogue concerning Book Revelation in his 9th edition of the "Eclipse" (pp.

63-83 of close print).

He still excludes from it every part of my argument, only stating in the opening (p.


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