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I just took David Daniell’s excellent biography of William Tyndale off the shelf. Found on page 316, listen to Tyndale’s words in the prologue of his 1534 English NT: “Here thou hast (most dear reader) the new testament or covenant made with us of God in Christ’s blood.”

The American Protestant Church is conspicuously neither fluent in Old Testament Hebrew or New Testament Greek and the principal reason for unperceived need for trilingualism is the faith and trust placed in the Authorized Version as the word of God in English. Since the Nation’s founding the Authorized Version has been the Bible of theContinue reading “The King James Version in Washington D.C.”

“Muslim scholarly criticism of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament never brought about a corresponding study of the Qur’an. When European biblical criticism was brought to the Muslim East in the nineteenth century, it served only as an additional corroboration of the traditional polemical arguments about the falsification and unreliability of the Hebrew Bible andContinue reading “The Negative Impact of Textual Criticism on the World Stage”

“The most effectual means of producing a uniformity in religion, upon any other plan than that of rational conviction, would be to deprive the common people of the use of the Bible, in their mother tongue; and oblige them to receive their religion from the dictates of their spiritual guides only. It was by thisContinue reading “Daniel Turner, 1793, and Freedom from Ecclesiastical Despotism and Effecting the Protestant Reformation by means of the Reformation Era English Bible in the Tyndale/King James Version tradition.”

The term “dictation” in modern parlance bears a wooden, narrow meaning not applicable to inspiration during the Reformation. Indeed, if ever a word suffered the ignominies of modern theological reconstruction, it is the word “dictation.” The word was in general use among the Reformers as common terminology describing the penmen’s role in writing under immediateContinue reading “Dictation and Inspiration”

“There are three things simply necessary into any man’s having a true religion and godliness; sound principles of divine truth, the savour of that knowledge in the heart, and the power of that savour in a man’s worship and walk. There are no sound principles of saving faith, but in God’s written word. There isContinue reading “Rev. Robert Traill, 1705, on True Religion”

As for that, which some men say, that the Church is more ancienter than the Scriptures, and therefore of greater authority, it is too trifling. For the word of God is the everlasting wisdom of God himself. Neither was the knowledge of it then manifested unto the Church, when it was committed to writing, butContinue reading “Zacharias Ursinus, 1587, on Scripture as the immortal seed of the Church”

Sect. 5. The sum of what I am pleading for, as to the particular Head to be vindicated is; that as the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, were immediately, and entirely given out by God himself, his mind being in them represented unto us, without the least interveniency* of such wills , asContinue reading “John Owen, 1658, on the Purity, Preservation, and Integrity of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of the Old and New Testaments”

The original canonical sacred scripture is of infallible truthfulness and wholly free of error, or, what is the same thing, in the canonical sacred scripture there is no lie, no falsehood, not even the smallest error either in words or matter, but everything, together and singly, that is handed on in them is most true,Continue reading “John Andrew Quenstedt, 1617-1688, on Scripture’s infallibility”

Willet’s Cambridge classmate William Perkins reiterated his high view of Scripture in his commentary on Galatians. This was Perkins’s last book, posthumously edited by Ralph Cudworth.[1] In The Epistle Dedicatorie Cudworth writes this of the word of God: They being of such perfection that nothing may be added unto them, nor anything taken away fromContinue reading “William Perkins, 1558-1602, on Galatians and Scripture’s Preservation”