Excerpt from The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion With the Creation and the Fall, Redemption and Judgment This contrast between the nature of the truth, and our faint and variable apprehensions of it, has led to some perplexity with regard to the evidence on which it rests. The pious mind shrinks from the thought that a doctrine so momentous should be viewed merely as a high proba bility. It claims for it instinctively some absolute de monstration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.