Preservation – Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr., Musings in Bibliology

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”

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”

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”

Research Update

In August of 2011 for about a week, my son Peter and I, sequestered ourselves among the 450,000 volumes then housed in the Calvin College library in Grand Rapids, MI, mining the extensive collection for books dealing with pre-critical exegesis and commentary. We completed our research accumulating thousands of pages of notable and obscure authorsContinue reading “Research Update”

William Bucanus, 1659, Professor of Divinity in the University of Lausanne, on Scripture’s Self-attesting Witness

Common Place IIII. Of the Holy Scripture What is the Scripture called? The Scripture, putting one name for another is used for the writings of the Prophets and Apostles, which the company of the faithful doth religiously use for the instruction in godliness. And it is called holy, because, being delivered of God, it containethContinue reading “William Bucanus, 1659, Professor of Divinity in the University of Lausanne, on Scripture’s Self-attesting Witness”

Zacharias Ursinus, 1587, on Scripture as the immortal seed of the Church

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”

Andrew Willet (1562-1621) on Holy Scripture

Authority of Scripture This chapter addresses the question of whether traditional belief in inspiration and authority of the sacred text implies an essentially dogmatic and subjective exegetical result. To answer this question, it is first important to reflect upon the historical conditions within which the debate for Scripture’s authority was couched. The formulation of theologyContinue reading “Andrew Willet (1562-1621) on Holy Scripture”

Thomas Hall, 1658, on Psalm 19:7-12: Scripture’s Power and Preservation

2. Tis exceeding powerful. There’s latens, a hidden efficacy in it to convert the soul (Psalm 19:7 and save the soul, James 1:21; Luke 16:29, 31; Job 20:31) which no philosophy nor human eloquence can do. Nature cannot cure us of our hereditary, connatural sins, but the Scripture offers more grace, James 4:6 (i.e.) itContinue reading “Thomas Hall, 1658, on Psalm 19:7-12: Scripture’s Power and Preservation”

Thomas Hall, 1658, on 2 Timothy 3:15: “Love the Scriptures for their purity. As God is to be loved for his purity, so is his word.”

So here what a large encomium and high commendation the Holy Ghost gives of the Scriptures, even such as is given to no other book in the world besides. He commends them in respect of one special property and adjunct, viz. their Holiness. The Holy Scriptures. From their effects, they are able to make usContinue reading “Thomas Hall, 1658, on 2 Timothy 3:15: “Love the Scriptures for their purity. As God is to be loved for his purity, so is his word.””

Thomas Hall, 1658, on 2 Timothy 3:16 and Scripture’s Inspiration

The Apostle, better to encourage Timothy to study the Holy Scriptures, goeth on the prove that they are able to make one wise unto salvation, and that by drawn from a full and sufficient enumeration of those things which are necessary to salvation, where he commends the Holy Scriptures upon, a threefold account: 1. ForContinue reading “Thomas Hall, 1658, on 2 Timothy 3:16 and Scripture’s Inspiration”