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I. PHILOSOPHIC doubts. All men are not philosophers, and cannot reason as Descartes did from self to all outside. We must accept some axioms without proof.

II. RATIONALISTIC doubts. The withholding faith in spite of evidence. They mistake the use of reason in matters of faith. Men act upon three propositions in determining what is right.

1. That is right which we think to be right.

2. There is no telling what right is.

3. That there is a final arbiter.The objections of the rationalists are based on foregone conclusions.

1. It is declared a priori that the Infinite cannot be a person.

2. That nature is uniform. These are urged against the Bible. But miracles have been wrought. Will a man stand on the wharf as the steamboat is departing and declare that steam is an absurdity?

III. SPIRITUAL doubts. Such are pestered with fears of a different kind.

1. They believe that death is a crisis.

2. That the soul is guilty. Are we pardoned?

3. Some are troubled by the doctrine of election.

(F. L. Patton, D. D.)

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KJV: And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.

WEB: When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.