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A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…
A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Usher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoined a tract, entitled Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore written [sic] and published by the same author.A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour.
London: printed by M.F. for Tho. Downes and Geo. Badger, 1645
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Most strongly, for the people being to learn of the Minister, what to believe and what to do, and more being required of him that must be the eye and mouth of all the rest, if he may be perfectly instructed by the Scriptures, they are much more able to give every common man sufficient instruction. Again, seeing the Minister is bound to disclose the whole counsel of God to his people, (Acts 20. 27.) he being thereunto fully furnished out of the treasury of the Word of God; it followeth that by him out of the Scriptures they may also be abundantly taught to salvation.
Most strongly, for the people being to learn of the Minister, what to beleeve and what to doe, and more being required of him that must be the eye and mouth of all the rest, if he may be perfectly instructed by the Scriptures, they are much more able to give every common man sufficient instruction. Again, seeing the Minister is bound to disclose the whole counsell of God to his people, (Acts 20. 27.) he being thereunto fully furnished out of the treasury of the Word of God; it followeth that by him out of the Scriptures they may also be abundantly taught to salvation.
What further proof have you of the sufficiency of the Scriptures?
The five Books of Moses, which was the first holy Scripture delivered to the Church, was sufficient for the instruction of the people of that time, in all that God required at their hands, as appeareth by that they were forbidden to add any thing unto it, or to take any thing from it, but to do that only which was prescribed by the Law, (