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366 THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT EXAMINATION FOR CERTIFICATES June 1857 -iuranslatt into £ngluil Profecto Judaeorum leges et casremoniae quamvis eas Hamanus accusaret novitatis non poterant hominum culquam vere et recte cogitanti videri novae erant enim antiquissimis tabulis consig- natse Et Christus quamvis eum multi putarent ab Abrahamo et priscis patribus discessisse et novam quandam religionem suo nomine invexisse tainen vere respondit Si crederetis Mosi crederetis mihi quoque nam doctrina mea non est ita nova Moses enim antiquissimus auctor cui vos omnia tribuitis de me locutus est Et Paulus evangelium Jesu Christi etsi multis novum esse judicetur tamen habet inquit antiquissimum testi- monium legis et prophetarum II-tEraiialatc into Eattn k0£ie It is written concerning the manna that if man gathered it as God had commanded he was nourished thereby but if any man would gather it contrary to the command of God and the divinely appointed method he was not able to eat thereof because it bred worms And so it came to pass that the same manna stank and became corrupt to some whilst to others it was health- ful and necessary food Now our manna is the word of God and this word with us for some worketh salvation to others it worketh wrath Hence our Saviour saith For judgment am come into the world that they which see not might see and that they which see might be made blind Better were it not to hear the word of God at all than to hear it with malice or hypocrisy He heareth rightly who bears with an honest and good heart wherein the word may as in good soil spring up and bear fruit abundantly