Providential Preservation Argues for a Closed Canon

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”

How 16th c. Scottish Hymns Teach the Doctrine of Scripture

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”

Dr. John Cosin (1594 -1672) on Scripture’s Force and Efficacy

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”

Multiple Version Onlyism and the Deadly Sin of Sloth

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”

Is Multiple Version Onlyism Essential to Saving Faith

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”

Richard Stock (1651) on Malachi 2:6

Introductory note on Stock’s study with Master William Whitaker at Cambridge Turning to Cambridge again, the dates remind us (in the words of the loveable Author of the Thirty-two Lives’) that “at this time Doctor Whitaker was Master of St John’s,” who, Clarke says, “favored” Master Stock very much “for his ingenuity (=ingenuousnesss), industry, andContinue reading “Richard Stock (1651) on Malachi 2:6”

William Bucanus, 1659, Professor of Divinity in the University of Lausanne on Regeneration, Infallibility, Perspicuity, and Authority

Willian Bucanus observes that it takes more than a keen mind to understand Scripture. In the following three quotes taken from his Body of Divinity, Bucanus accents regeneration as the essential element to understanding that Scripture comes from God, that it is clear to the elect, and that it is the Authority standing above theContinue reading “William Bucanus, 1659, Professor of Divinity in the University of Lausanne on Regeneration, Infallibility, Perspicuity, and Authority”

Henry Venn, 1763, and the Significance of Inward Introspection when Reading the Scripture

“Nearly allied to this careful meditation on the word of God is another important rule, which we must observe when we read any principal part of it; that is, to exact of ourselves correspondent affections and if we do not experience them, to lament and bewail the poverty and misery of our condition. For instance,Continue reading “Henry Venn, 1763, and the Significance of Inward Introspection when Reading the Scripture”