Fragments Gathered up: Changing Scripture to Suit Self

It is a deadly principle running through all rationalists that they make men's present habit of thinking the measure of the fitness of God's word; and thus gradually lead to the belief that it was the product of the age and country it was written in. If I change scripture for what suits the west and the nineteenth century, I shall soon change it for what suits myself; and we might as well not have it at all.