When the sum and substance of the Christian Principia are under attack, what compels the believer to yield to these inventions. Why believe someone when they say, “Your KJB is riddles with errors?” What gives that criticism credibility in the Christian mind? Adopting Pauline language as he wrote to the Galatians, we would subscribe thisContinue reading “How Foolish Can the Church Be?”
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Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Certainty of the Christian Religion
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”
Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on Divine Inspiration in Peter 1:20-21
That the Scriptures are also strict injunctions of Divine Authority concerning our duties. The reason of our faith and obedience to the Scriptures, is into their Divine Authority, which as it is the greatest of all, so upon less we may not depend…God is infallible in his understanding, faithful in his declarations, and so highlyContinue reading “Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on Divine Inspiration in Peter 1:20-21”
Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Credibility of Translations
And herein God shewed his care for the unlearned, who are the greater part of the world; for though they cannot read the Original, yet having a Translation, which, in that it is a Translation, agrees with the Original.1 They receive the same mind of God that the learned do. Why should any man beContinue reading “Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Credibility of Translations”
Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Credibility of Holy Scripture
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”
Musculus, 1578, on the Theocentricity of Scripture’s Authority
Of the truth and accomplishment of the holy scriptures The truth of the holy Scriptures dependeth upon the truth of God who is the author of them. He that doubteth the truth of them, either does not believe that they were uttered by the instance of the Holy Spirit, or else if he doubts notContinue reading “Musculus, 1578, on the Theocentricity of Scripture’s Authority”
Richard Allestree, 1678: A 17th C. assessment of a contemporary academic and ecclesiastical epidemic
In the Treatise of the government of the tongue published by me heretofore, I had occasion to take notice among the exorbitances of that unruly part, which sets on fire the whole course of nature, and itself is set on fire from hell, James 3:6, of the impious vanity prevailing in this age, whereby menContinue reading “Richard Allestree, 1678: A 17th C. assessment of a contemporary academic and ecclesiastical epidemic”
Richard Allestree,1678, on the Preservation of Scripture
6. And for this, God (whose care is equal for all successions of men) hath graciously provided, by causing Holy Scriptures to be written, by which he hath derived on every succeeding age the illumination of the former. And for that purpose, endowed the writers not only with that moral fidelity requisite to the truthContinue reading “Richard Allestree,1678, on the Preservation of Scripture”
Richard Allestree, 1678, on the Supereminency of the Wisdom of God in Holy Scripture
14. How attractive a thing Wisdom is, we may observe in the instance of the Queen of Sheba, who came from the utmost parts of the earth, as Christ says, Matt. 12:42 to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And the like is noted of the Greek Sages, that they were addressed to from all pasts,Continue reading “Richard Allestree, 1678, on the Supereminency of the Wisdom of God in Holy Scripture”
John Trapp, 1650, on Canonicity, Special Providence and the Preservation of the Song of Songs
Which is Solomon’s] He was the Penman, God the Author. Of the many other Songs he was both Author and instrument, 1 Kings 4:32. Not so of this, which therefore the Chaldee Paraphrase here entitleth, Songs and Hymns (in the plural, for the surpassing excellency of it) which Solomon the Prophet, the King of Israel,Continue reading “John Trapp, 1650, on Canonicity, Special Providence and the Preservation of the Song of Songs”
Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr., Musings in Bibliology 