The Antediluvian History, and Narrative of the Flood - As Set Forth in the Early Portions of the Book of Genesis; Critically Examined and Explained #263646

He holds that the real divinity of those extraordinary portions of revelation can be most satisfactorily maintained, without mak ing any concessions to opinions, which are offensive to judicious and rational thinking. The adoption of new sentiments concern ing them need not decrease piety, or weaken faith; if they expel error and destroy superstition, their uses will be great. They who abandon a prejudice, which they had thought to be an opin ion, when some new truth is demonstrated to them, come thereby into greater liberty and purer light.