2. This prerogative of reason is constantly recognized in Scrip- ture. The prophets called upon the people to reject the doctrines of the heathen, because they could not be true. They could not be true because they involved contradictions and absurdities ; be- cause they were in contradiction to our moral nature, and incon- sistent with known truths. Moses taught that nothing was to be believed, no matter what amount of external evidence should be adduced in its support, which contradicted a previous, duly authen- ticated revelation fi"om God. Paul does the same thing when he calls upon us to pronounce even an angel accursed, who should teach another gospel. He recognized the paramount authority of the intuitive judgments of the mind. He says that the damna on of any man is just who calls upon us to believe that right is wrong, or that men should do e^^l that good may come.
3. The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. We can neither believe nor know anything unless we con- fide in those laws of belief which God has implanted in our nature. If we can be required to believe what contradicts those laws, tlien