If the Scriptures be the very word of God, then it must needs follow that they are pure, perfect, infallible, of the highest authority, majesty, antiquity, and excellency; the best judge of controversies, and the only Rule of our lives both in doctrine and practice. This we shall see clearly proved to us, in PsalmsContinue reading “Thomas Hall, 1658, on Psalm 19:7-12: Scripture’s Perfection”
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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, 2 Timothy 3:16 on God’s very words inscripturated
Before I proceed any further, it will be necessary to remove a block or two out of the way. Bellarmine himself confesseth that this is one of the chiefest places that we have to prove the Scriptures perfection: and therefore both he and Estius have invented all the ways they can to invade the forceContinue reading “Thomas Hall, 1658, 2 Timothy 3:16 on God’s very words inscripturated”
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”
Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr., Musings in Bibliology 