"We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in the body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Knowing, therefore, _the terrors of the Lord_, we persuade men." Take away the miraculous and supernatural from the gospel history, and there is nothing left for you to accept.

There is no political economy nor worldly morality in it.

It is wholly the history of a supernatural person, and every precept of his morality comes with a divine sanction.
Further, you know nothing of either his life or his morality but from the gospel history, and if the record of the miracles which occupy three-fourths of the gospels be false, what reason have you to give any credit to the remainder?
For, as the German commentator, De Wette, well says, "The only means of acquaintance with a history is the narrative we possess concerning it, and beyond that narrative the interpreter can not go.

In these Bible records, the narrative reports to us only a supernatural course of events, which we must either receive or reject.
If we reject the narrative, we know nothing at all about the event, and we are not justified in allowing ourselves to invent a natural course of events of which the narrative is totally silent." So, you see, you can not make a Christ to suit your taste, but must just take the Christ of the gospel, or reject him.
If you reject the testimony of Christ and his apostles as false, and say you can not believe them in matters of fact, how can you respect their morality?
Of all the absurdities of modern Infidelity, the respectful language generally used by its advocates in speaking of Christ and his apostles is the most inconsistent.