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That the Scriptures are a proposal of all these truths to our understandings in a way of most fair and full credibility, and that appears in these three things. The way of proposal is most credible. The things propounded are in themselves evidently true. The expressions in which they are laid down, are plain, andContinue reading “Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Credibility of Holy Scripture”

The advocates of a Stand Sacred Text (SST) are held to a level of consistency unknown to the formulators of the Critical Text (CT). The comparison is the difference between a document that claims to be from God, which is inherently absolute in its declarations–pure, infallible, inspired, preserved — and a document that is inherentlyContinue reading “When a Non-Standard is Held as the Standard”

It’s Sunday Morning and everyone is on their way to church, to greet the saints and gather around the preaching of the Word. The parking lot is full. Ushers are at the front door with a welcoming handshake and a visitors card for those who are looking for a church to attend. Kids are runningContinue reading “Imagine Sunday School”

Luke 2:1-20  1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 4 And Joseph also wentContinue reading “The Birth of Jesus, the Son of God”

Upon the plainness of God’s revelation, depends the certainty of the Christian Religion. This Pillar had need be firm, for the best thing in the world rests upon it. What is acceptable to Christ, and what he will do for us, is to be known by revelation which he hath made of his mind toContinue reading “Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Certainty of the Christian Religion”

CHAP III Of the Word of God The perfect and equal object of Preaching is the Word of God, (or, the word of God is the whole and only matter, about which preaching is exercised: it is the field in which the Preacher must contain himself). Luke 16:29, They have Moses and the Prophets, let themContinue reading “William Perkins, 1604, on the Inspiration, Preservation and Canonicity of Holy Scripture as the foundation for Preaching”

Papist: That the Word of God contained in the Canonical Books of the Old and New Testaments, is not the rule of all Verity, since you yourself confess that you hold many things which are not found in the Divine Books. Protestant: You have already made this objection, and I think I have sufficiently answeredContinue reading “Charles Drillincourt, 1658, on Scripture’s Self-Interpretation”

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21 Christ became a man in order to fulfill all the OT law. Romans 8:3-4, “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sendingContinue reading “Merry Christmas Sunday”

“God is first of all the subject communicating knowledge to man, and can only become an object of study for man in so far as the latter appropriates and reflects on the knowledge conveyed to him by revelation. Without revelation man would never have been able to acquire any knowledge of God. And even afterContinue reading “God’s Self-revelation: the Prerequisite of all Knowledge of God”