

Transcribed from the 1862 Wertheim, Macintosh and Hunt edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org





                                 THOUGHTS
                                    ON
                              A REVELATION.


                                    BY
                           S. J. JERRAM, M.A.,
                        VICAR OF CHOBHAM, SURREY.

                                * * * * *

                                 LONDON:
                      WERTHEIM, MACINTOSH AND HUNT,
                           24, PATERNOSTER ROW,
                 AND 23, HOLLES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE.

                                  1862.




ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS.

                                                                 PAGE.

Introductory: proposed mode of treating the subject                1-4
1.--Knowledge of God needful                                         4
  ,,,,,, cannot be obtained by direct perception of               5
      God
  ,,,,,, cannot be obtained, to a sufficient extent,              6
      by exercise of natural faculties
  ,,,,,, cannot be obtained by any implanted idea                 6
  ,,,,,, therefore must be revealed                               8
   Objection arising from non-universality of a                      8
      Revelation answered
2.--Conditions under which a Revelation may be expected              9
      to be _given_
   Revelation must have a distinctive character                      9
  ,,,,,, must be authenticated to original recipients            10
  ,,,,,, cannot convey a perfect knowledge of God                12
  ,,,,,, must be limited by the object designed                  12
  ,,,,,, must be limited also by the state of                    14
      knowledge existing at the time when made
  ,,,,,, must be, in some degree, phenomenal                     15
   Such a Revelation appears to be the only one in                  16
      accordance with man's position, and