Calendar: 1861-1862 Page 448

EXAMINATION PAPERS ijeologt'cal department EXAMINATION FOR CERTIFICATES Christmas 1860 -CransSlaU into 3lattn $n1ge There are some who though they deny not God do not at all regard Him as One who cousidereth and witnesseth and jwlgeth not even attributing anger to Him "For say they 'fif God be angry He is corruptible and subject to passions But the same persons confessing elsewhere that the soul is divine and bestowed by God fall upon testimony of the soul itself to be retorted against the above opinion for if the soul be either divine or given by God doubtless it knoweth Him who gave it and if it knoweth assuredly also it feareth Him Deth it not fear Him whom it would rather have favourable to it than wrathful against it Whence then cometh this natural fear of the soul towards God if God hath no mind to be angry How can He be feared who cannot be offended What is feared except anger How shall one be angry except he mark what is done amiss Why should He mark except to judge י How shall He judge except He have power To whom belongeth the chief power except to God alone Hence cometh it then Ο soul that from the knowledge that is within thee thou declarest at home and abroad no man scoffing at nor forbidding thee God seeth all things and commend to God and God shall judge between us