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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 3
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Fourthly, Christians should not willingly enter into those Disputes, which 1are apt to be raised about the Authority of the Bible, and how we come to know they are the Books of God. Austin spake fully to this, when he acknowledged that God had taught him, that such were not to be heard, who would say, Unde seis hos libros? &c. How do ye know these Books to be from the Holy Ghost, and that the Authors thereof were guided by him? For this is the first principle of Christianity; We cease to be Christians, if we deny the Authority of them. So that as in all Arts, there are the prima principia, which are not to be questioned, and are indemonstrable; So is the Scripture to Christians. They are like the Sun, that is visible by its own light. And indeed it would be a vain attempt to undertake such a proof to a Christian; seeing nothing can be apprehended of greater Authority with him than the Scripture it self. Therefore the people of God should stop their ears against all such Disputes. For it was the Devils way of old to make Eve question the truth of Gods Word. Yet
Fourthly, Christians should not willingly enter into those Disputes, which 1are apt to be raised about the Authority of the Bible, and how we come to know they are the Books of God. Austin spake fully to this, when he acknowledged that God had taught him, that such were not to be heard, who would say, Unde seis hos libros? &c. How do ye know these Books to be from the Holy Ghost, and that the Authours thereof were guided by him? For this is the first principle of Christianity; We cease to be Christians, if we deny the Authority of them. So that as in all Arts, there are the prima principia, which are not to be questioned, and are indemonstrable; So is the Scipture to Christians. They are like the Sunne, that is visible by its own light. And indeed it would be a vain attempt to undertake such a proof to a Christian; seeing nothing can be apprehended of greater Authority with him than the Scripture it self. Therefore the people of God should stop their ears against all such Disputes. For it was the Devils way of old to make Eve question the truth of Gods Word. Yet
- 1The authority of the Scripture not to be questioned or disputed of.