9) that Paul learned the _fact_ that Christ pleased not himself.] [Footnote 25: Here, again, I have been erroneously understood to say that there cannot be _any_ internal revelation of _anything_.

Internal truth may be internally communicated, though even so it does not become authoritative, or justify the receiver in saying to other men, "Believe, _for_ I guarantee it." But a man who, on the strength of an _internal_ revelation believes an _external event_, (past, present, or future,) is not a valid witness of it.

Not Paley only, nor Priestley, but James Martineau also, would disown his pretence to authority; and the more so, the more imperious his claim that we believe on his word.] [Footnote 26: This appears in v.

2, "by which ye are saved,--_unless ye have believed in vain_" &c.

So v.