Nor can the argument be evaded by talking of external evidences; for these also are confessedly moral evidences, to be judged of by our moral faculties.

Nay, according to all Christian advocates, they are God's test of our moral temper.

To allege, therefore, that our moral faculties are not to judge, is to annihilate the evidences for Christianity .-- Thus, finally, I was lodged in three inevitable conclusions: 1.

The moral and intellectual powers of man must be acknowledged as having a right and duty to criticize the contents of the Scripture: 2.

When so exerted, they condemn portions of the Scripture as erroneous and immoral: 3.