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From all that has been said, we may abundantly infer the duty of reading the scriptures. This obligation arises from the positive command of God, directed to all and each of mankind – “These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,Continue reading “Benedict Pictet (1696) on the Duty of Reading the Scriptures”

From what has been said, we may easily ascertain who is the true and supreme Judge of controversies, viz. God who speaks in Scripture. For he only can be a supreme judge in religious matters, who never errs, nor can err, in his decisions, who is influenced neither by partiality, nor by passion, and fromContinue reading “Benedict Pictet (1696) on Scripture as the Only Rule of Faith and Practice, part 2”

“Reason is as it were the eye of the mind, but scripture is the standard, by which it measures the objects proposed.” [Please note that Pictet, writing in the 17th century addresses the same controversies the church deals with today only from the perspective of the superiority of Scripture over reason where the modern EvangelContinue reading “Benedict Pictet (1696) on Scripture as the Only Rule of Faith and Practice, part 1”

Having proved the divinity and inspiration of the scripture, we next consider its authority. Now this is nothing else but the dignity and right of the sacred books, whereby they claim our faith in whatever they hold forth as necessary to be believed, and our obedience in whatever they prescribe to be done, or toContinue reading “Benedict Pictet (1655-1724): Four Arguments for the Self-authenticating Authority of Scripture”

This post taken from Exegetical Grounding, 96-97, “argues for the end of the historic, providential process once the text is the replica of the exemplar, both the process and the end according to the plan of God, or a closed canon. The terminus is written by the Apostle John in Revelation 22:18-19. Speaking for notContinue reading “Providential Preservation Argues for a Closed Canon”

As I write this entry consider how little of what is posted on Standard Sacred Text that can be utilized by or is relevant to the modern Evangelical MVO critical text adherent. Having thrown off the past and being every day in the process of recreating an uncertain theological future, the ecclesiastical history and historicContinue reading “How 16th c. Scottish Hymns Teach the Doctrine of Scripture”

John Cosin (1594 -1672) English hymnwriter and Anglican cleric who became Master of Peterhouse College Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1660 and Bishop of Durham. “For though there be many Internal Testimonies belonging to the Holy Scriptures, whereby we may be sufficiently assured, that they be the True and lively Oracles of God, Rom.Continue reading “Dr. John Cosin (1594 -1672) on Scripture’s Force and Efficacy”

The premise of this post is that Christianity has been and is being abandoned in part because the God of Christianity is not understood as being satisfying to the soul of man because Holy Scripture is not satisfying. If the special revelation of God does not fill the soul of man to satisfaction, correspondingly, theContinue reading “Multiple Version Onlyism and the Deadly Sin of Sloth”

The egregious error of modern textual criticism and it evangelical surrogates is that the process is essentially Christless. Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King, rather than being essential to the analysis is considered a liability of one’s theological precommitments. In what other venue or discipline of life would a faithful saint argue that Christ hasContinue reading “Is Multiple Version Onlyism Essential to Saving Faith”

Proverbs 1:8 “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother” (Prov. 1:8).   Those who look upon the Proverbs as the address of Solomon to his son Rehoboam naturally take “father” as standing for the former. Naamah, in this case must be the mother – not an Israeli.Continue reading “The law of thy mother”