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ECCE

CONSILIUM.

The Great Revelation.

"The Bible is a Self-interpreting book.

There must be in it an Answer to

all Questions. Find the Key, and the Riddles in it are Solved."

LONDON:

MARSHALL

STATIONERS' HALL COURT, E.c.

SIMPKIN

1872.

& CO.,

[Entered at Stationers' Hall. All rights reserved.]

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ECCE CONSILIUM.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

ONE of the signs of modern times is the universal upheaving of the public mind regarding matters of religious belief. There exists a state of unrest, of dissatisfaction, of positive unbelief in the reality of a divine revelation given to man.

Even those who will not admit of a doubt upon the subject, are bewildered and troubled by the palpable contradictions attending the popular exposition of the Bible.

Amid the turmoil and strife of tongues, there arises a longing for repose, "Oh, for an antidote for the unrest," which comes as a cry of want and pain from the souls of those to whom belief is vital, but whom reason and reflection force to leave the trodden paths of religious faith, and in answer to this cry we ask, is it not within the bounds of possibility that great and learned men, even good men and true, have failed to grasp the full significance of the Scripture language, and that

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