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HE inspired books in the Bible are PLENARY inspired, and are the following (see Noble, The Plenary Inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures), viz.:—The five books of Moses, Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, the two books of Kings, the Psalms, all the Prophets, the Gospels, and the Revelation. Doubtless, the other books in the Old Testament have been of service to the Church in all ages. The book of the Acts of the Apostles beautifully confirms the truth of the preceding by the miraculous interposition of the Lord. The Epistles of the Apostle Paul wonderfully set forth the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God, as also do the other Apostles, but they are not plenary inspired. Reader, pray for the illumination of the Holy Spirit of Christ, and read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. The first eleven chapters of Genesis are not positively literal, but treat spiritually of the establishment of the Adamic Church and its destruction, and the setting up of the Noetic Church and its dispersion. Then commences the literal sense with the call of Abraham, containing a literal sense, a spiritual and celestial sense,—the literal sense teaching of events as they occur, the spiritual sense referring entirely to the work of regeneration in the union of man and the Church, and the celestial