CHAPTER XV.
APPLICATION OF THE TWO TESTS, SAID, IN DEUTERONOMY, TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY GOD, AS DISCRIMINATING A TRUE PROPHET FROM A FALSE ONE, TO THE CHARACTER AND ACTIONS OF JESUS.
In the 18th chapter of Deuteronomy God says,--"The Prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that Prophet shall die.

And if thou say in thine heart, how shall we know (or distinguish,) the word which the Lord hath not spoken ?" Here is the criterion.

"When a Prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass; that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken.

That Prophet hath spoken presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." Again, Deuteronomy 13, "If there arise among you a Prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and give you a sign or a wonder (i.e.

a miracle,) and the sign or wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee saying, let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them: thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that Prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God proveth (or tryeth) you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all you heart, and with all your soul." And now Christian reader, I ask you what you think of miracles, or "signs and wonders," as proof of a divine mission, to teach doctrines novel and innovating, after such clear and unequivocal language as this, from such high authority?
I am sure, that if you are a sincere lover of truth, you must certainly abandon that ground as untenable.