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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”

Since the early 19th century is there anyone who believes that the MVO position can produce a text to replace the King James Version having proven that the two things that are different cannot be the same axiom makes it impossible to come up with a definitive answer to the believer’s question as to whetherContinue reading “The Evangelical Mob”

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”

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”

“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”

Bishop Edward Wetenhall, 1636-1713, unknown to many, was held in such high esteem that he was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey. The inscription reads: “Here lie buried the remains of the Right Reverend Father in Christ Edward Wetenhall D.D. Bishop first of Cork for 20 years, then of Kilmore and Ardagh forContinue reading “Bishop Edward Wetenhall, 1636-1713, and the Importance of Theological Catechizing in the Home”