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

C.G. Lamothe, 1694, on Honoring and Reverencing Holy Scripture

The fourth proof drawn from the honor which the Ancients paid to the Sacred Books of the New Testament. We may have a very strong argument to prove that the Primitive Church believed that the sacred books of the New Testament were inspired, from the honor and reverence which were paid to them. I shallContinue reading “C.G. Lamothe, 1694, on Honoring and Reverencing Holy Scripture”

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”

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”

John Owen, 1658, on the Inspiration and Preservation of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of the Old and New Testaments

Sect. 6. Now the several assertions or propositions contained in this position, are to me such important Truths, that I shall not be blamed in the least by my own Spirit, Nor I hope by any others, in contending for them, judging them fundamental parts of the faith once delivered unto the saints, and thoughContinue reading “John Owen, 1658, on the Inspiration and Preservation of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of the Old and New Testaments”