Found in this volume are eight lectures on the early history and origin of the doctrine of Biblical inspiration, being the Bampton Lectures for 1893. The lectures are entitled: historic canon, estimate of the New Testament by the early church; historic canon, estimate of the Old Testament in the first century of the Christian era; genesis of the Old Testament, the prophetic and historical books; genesis of the Old Testament, the law and the Hagiographa; growth of the Old Testament as a collection of sacred books; genesis of the New Testament, the gospels and acts; genesis of the New Testament, epistles and apocalypse; retrospect and results, traditional and inductive theories of inspiration compared.