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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”

“The beginning of the system proper is, in other words, the exposition of the two principia. Scripture and God, as identified, but not fully defined or exposited, in the prolegomena. The question that arises immediately upon the identification of the two principia of foundations: should the system proceed from its ontic to its noetic foundation,Continue reading “No Word of God without God: No Self-Revealed God without the Word”

Andrew 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 awayContinue reading “Knowing the Scripture Certainly”

The answer is, short of divine intervention, no, they cannot be saved from their chosen life of chaos. Some perspectives so alter a person that a return to the pre-altered state is implausible. Once holding truth in unrighteousness becomes normative, the internal contradiction itself and the chaos that results from this contradiction makes a returnContinue reading “Can The Intuitively Contradictory Life Be Saved?”

This quiz was composed by Henry G. Bosch, originator and 25-year editor of the devotional guide, “Our Daily Bread.” This quiz ran in the Grand Rapids Press in December of 1994 and has been edited for our use. 1.            Jesus was born about how many months after John the Baptist? _6 months – Luke 2:36_Continue reading “Christmas Quiz Answers”

This quiz was composed by Henry G. Bosch, originator and 25-year editor of the devotional guide, “Our Daily Bread.” This quiz ran in the Grand Rapids Press in December of 1994 and has been edited for our use. This material makes for an excellent Sunday School lesson on Christmas Sunday morning to enlighten visitors andContinue reading “Christmas Quiz”