The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons

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.  The Spirit of God in the Bible, and the judgment of the Church in all ages, bears witness with my spirit that this is true.  So ought God to have done, and therefore surely so hath God done.  Shall not the Judge of all the earth do RIGHT?’

1

Evidences, Part III.  Cap. iii.

2

Lectures on the Jewish Church, Lect. xviii. p. 401.

3

I must say that all attempts to put a later date on these books seems to me to fail simply from want of evidence.  I must say, also, that all attempts to distinguish between ‘Jehovistic’ and ‘Elohistic’ documents (with the exception, perhaps, of the first chapter of Genesis) seem to me to fail likewise; and that the theory of an Elohistic and a Jehovistic sect has received its reductionem ad absurdum in a certain recent criticism of the Psalms.