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tures [apologetic] (London, 185G) ; Bannermann, Truth and A uthority of Scripture [aims at orthodoxy, but fails to meet the controversy fully] (Ediiib. 18(;4) ; Hannah, iJivine and Human Elements in IIoli/ Scripture (Bamp- ton Lect. for 1853 ; presents many points clearly) ; Kowe, Nature and Extent of Insjnration [limited in plan] (London, 1804); Warrington, Inspiration, its Limits and Effects [chiefly apologetic] (London, 18G7) ; Curtis, Hu- man Element in Inspiration [Rationalistic] (N. Y. 1867). See also Home, Introduction, i ; Witsius, Miscell. Sac. i, p. 262 sq. : Twestcn, Dor/matik, i, sec. 23-28 ; Hill, Lec- tures on Diciniti/, bk. ii, ch. i ; Tholuck, in the Jour, of Sac. Lit. July, 1854, p. 331 S(i. [takes rather a low posi- tion for orthodoxy] (from the Deutsche Zeitschr. 1850) ; ■Steudel, in the Tubinff. Zeitschr. 1840 [takes more ad- vanced ground] (transl. in the Brit, and For. Ev. Rev. Oct. 1862) ; Rudelbach, in the Zeitschr. f. Luth. Theol. 1860 [mostly historical] (transl. in part in the Brit, and For. Ei: Rex: April, 1863) ; Westcott, Introd. to the Gos- pels, p. 5, 383 ; Donaldson, Hist. Chrkt. Lit. and Doctr. (see Theol. Index, vol. iii) ; Werner, Gesch. d. apolog. u. polem. Litter, d. chris/l. Thi <>}. v. .! Ill si|. ; Deuziger, Die theol. Lehre v. d. Iii^pir.tthni mil iU -.hhinKj anf uiannif)- faltirje dltere und mui rr Aliirnntf/iii r. rirhtipen undcor- recten Begriffen (in the Rel. Erkliir. ii. 156-242) ; Fr. de Rougemout, Christ et ses temoins (Paris, 1856, 2 vols.) [opposes Gaussen and the false spiritualism of the Stras- burg school of Scherer and others] ; Lange, Philosoph. Dofjm. p. 540 sq. ; Pye Smith, First Lines of Christian Theol. (see Index : " Scripture") ; Anberlen, Die. Reve- lation, p. 204, 233 sq., 245 ; Martcnscn, ( lirislinn Dorpaat. p. 18, 338 sq., 402 sq.; Farrar, ('/■///,,// lli<l,,r,i of Free Thought (see Index); Donaldson, Chrhliaii Orthodoxy, ch. iii and Appendix v ; Baur, Dogmcngesch. (see Index to each vol. i-iii); Bull, Theol. ii," 152; Delitzsch, Bihl. Psychol, p. 433 ; Liddon, Bampt. Lect. 1866, p. 45, 219 ; Au- gusti, Dogmcngesch. i, ii (see Index) ; Miinscher, Dogmcn- gesch. ii, 219; Kahnis, T'w C'lnrch, p. 116; Bickersteth, Christ. Stu I. xx'^m-. Aids to Faith. \\ 2X7 sq. ; Noaudcr, Ch. Dogm. ii, 433, 442, 607 ; Hurst, nulh<,„ii;.<n,. p. 200 sq., 546 sq.; Carmichael, Theol. and MiJnjih. nf Scripture, i, 1 sq.; Maurice, Theolog. Essays, p. 314; Engl. Rev. xii, 247; Zo«rf. Q'/ar/. /?«?(.•. 1856, p. 559 ; 1860, p. 527; 1865, p. 260; Xorth. Brit. Rev. xxv, 74; Stud. u. Krit. 1869, p. 468; Bib. Sacra, 1865. p. 350, 519; Oct. 1867, p. 67, 193; 1868, p. 192 sq., 316, 381; 1869, p. 588; 1870, p. 33; Christian Remembrancer, 1856, art. i ; Jan. 1862, p. 506 ; 1868, p. 287; Christian Examiner, 1865, p. 255; Meth. Quart. Rev. 18.50, p. 500; 1855, p. 395; 1867 and 1868, Dr. Haven on Inspiration ; 1870, p. 1 10 ; New Englamler, 1861, p. 809; 1863, p, 95; Oct. 1867; Westm. Rev. IHU, p. 2.55, 257 ; Am. Presb. Rev. 1854, p. 141 ; 1860, p. 182 ;' 1865, p. 328, 519 ; Oct. 1866 ; Princeton Rep. 1857, p. 660 \ Bapt. (luart. Rev. Jan. 1868.

Inspired, the name of a sect which existed for .sonu' l.')ii years in Germany, and remnants of wliich are still to be found in the United States. They owe their origin i)artly to the French Prophets [see CA.MiSAuns], •partly to the (Jermau Separatists (q. v.). Their name they derived from the fact that, aside from the inspira- tion of the Scriptures, they also believe in an immedi- ate divine inspiration, affecting the person in such a manner that he becomes the instrument bv which the Holy Spirit manifests itself, and he is therefore to be obeyed by the faithful. After the unfortunate conclu- sion of the religious war in the Cevennes, a large num- ber of these French Prophets, for the most part honest, but ni whom bodily suflTerings had exalted the mind until they believed themselves directly inspired by (Jod went to England and Scotland. INIost important among them at that time were Elie iAIarion, Durandc Fagc^ Jean Cavalier, and Jean Allnut. These prophets preac"h- ed against France, and especially against the pajiaey, which latter they considered as the Anti-Christ. They soon, however, became olijects of suspicion on accoun't of their attempts at raising the dead, »nd were expelled from the established Episcopal Church. Obliged, there-

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