 | Religion - 1892 - 702 pages
...be to-day, The modern church echoes the Westminster Confession, to be sure. With it we see and laud "the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the...the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole (which is to give all glory to God), the full discovery Holy Scripture makes of the only way of man's... | |
 | Williston Walker - Congregational churches - 1893 - 626 pages
...Author thereof; and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God. V. We may be moved and induced by the Testimony of the Church, to an high and reverent esteem of the holy Scripture. And the heavenliness of the Matter, the efficacy of the Doctrine,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Briggs - Christianity - 1893 - 230 pages
...Calling, as we have seen. (d) The prosecution cite in evidence section 5th, as follows: "We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church to an high and reverent esteem for the Holy Scripture; and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Trials (Heresy) - 1893 - 404 pages
...those former ways of God's revealing his will unto his 273 people being now ceased. V. We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church to an high and reverent esteem for the Holy Scripture; and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine,... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - Universities and colleges - 1894 - 464 pages
..." Amongst the arguments whereby the Bible doth abundantly evidence itself to be the word of God are the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the...consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole." You will observe that these " incomparable excellences," these signs of authority, all turn on the... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - Universities and colleges - 1894 - 464 pages
..." Amongst the arguments whereby the Bible doth abundantly evidence itself to be the word of God are the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the...consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole." You will observe that these " incomparable excellences," these signs of authority, all turn on the... | |
 | Theology - 1882 - 666 pages
...is the word of God. We may be moved by the testimony of the church to a high and reverent concern of the holy scripture ; and the heavenliness of the matter,...the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole (which is to give all glory to God), the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation,... | |
 | Religion - 1892 - 822 pages
...work of the Holy Spirit, bearing witness by and with the word in our hearts (p. 35). And again : — The heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the...consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole, . . . and the entire perfection thereof, are arguments whereby it doth abundantly evidence itself to... | |
 | Edward Dafydd Morris - Presbyterian Church - 1900 - 886 pages
...too extensively, if not exclusively. usively, an internal test. While they teach that we may be moied and induced by the testimony of the church to an high and reverent esteem, they lay the main stress on the inward witness, derived from what the Scriptures are... | |
 | James Hastings - Bible - 1901 - 906 pages
...authority of Scripture is expressed by the Westminster Confession (ch. i. 5) thus : ' We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the Church to an high and reverend esteem ot the Holy Scripture, and theheavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty... | |
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