II. INTERNAL PROOFS. 1. Doctrines. Concerning the being. perfections, and govern ment of God; the origin of the worlds; the creation, nature, fail, sinfulness, redemption, and immortality of man. 2. Moral and religious precepts. The ten commandments; sermon on the mount; ethics of the epistles. 3. The person, character, and work of Jesus Christ: and the unity of all the Scriptures in him as the divine human Savior. In the Old Testament a deliverer is promised who would be one of the human race, yet would perform a work beyond human power; would descend from Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, David; would be born in Bethlehem, of a virgin mother, yet is eternal, the mighty God and Prince of Peace; would•be subjected to humiliation, sorrow, suffering, death; and, because of these things, would be raised from the dead and exalted to the right hand of God as the Savior of men. The New Testament exhib its Jesus Christ as descended, in human nature, from Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, David, and born in Bethlehem of the virgin Mary; yet as in his divine nature the Son of God, Emmanuel, God with us: as subjected to humiliation, suffering. and the cursed death of the cross; yet rising again the third day and filling the New Testa ment, the church and heaven with his glory as God manifest in the flesh. This exhi
bition of Christ in all the Scriptures is a demonstration that he is the divine savior and that they are inspired of God.
III. Experimental proof (combining both the external and internal) furnished by the rise and continued progress of Christianity and its effects on the character, condition, and hopes of mankind. Christianity contains a revelation from the living God, was founded by a living Savior, was embraced, through the power of the Holy Spirit, by living men, so that Christians existed before organized Christian churches, before the Christian Scriptures, before Christian customs, laws, or nations. Successive genera tions of Christians have been continued on the earth and have furnished living evidences of Christianity. The aggregate of Christian life, character, work, and influence throughout the world from the beginning to the present time is, to-day, the culmination of the proofs that Christianity is divine. See CHRISTIANITY, ante.