There exists no reason for supposing that the Divine Agent, who in the first instance thus gave to mankind the Scriptures of Truth, straightway abdicated His office; took no further care of His work; abandoned those precious writings to their fate.
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I am utterly disinclined to believe–so grossly improbable does it seem–that at the end of 1800 years 995 copies out of every thousand, suppose, will prove untrustworthy; and that the one, two three, four or five which remain, whose contents were till yesterday as good as unknown, will be found to have retained the secret of what the Holy Spirit originally inspired.