This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1711 Excerpt: ...Sense they are so. 4& How then can Our fifth be said to be properly and strictly Divine, since there is no Divine Testimony extant to Us, What Scriptures or Traditions are the Word of God, or his Revelation, or what is the True Sense and meaning of Them, The Holy Bible is Receiv'd by Us, upon Humane Testimony and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1711 Excerpt: ...Sense they are so. 4& How then can Our fifth be said to be properly and strictly Divine, since there is no Divine Testimony extant to Us, What Scriptures or Traditions are the Word of God, or his Revelation, or what is the True Sense and meaning of Them, The Holy Bible is Receiv'd by Us, upon Humane Testimony and Humane Reasons, so that The Canon of Scripture is but matter of Humane Faith or Opinion, And very Pious Men, and even whole Churches, have in several Ages Debated and Disputed about it, The Papists did for a long Time Reject the Epiftk to tie Hebrews, as Others did some other Books of the Scripture, The Apocalypse is Omitted in the famous Canon of Laodtcea, and Protestants Reject the Apocrypha to this" Day, And 'tis no Answer to say, That The Prophets and Apostles were Inspir'd, for it is by Humane Testimony, that We are Inform'd, That there were such Men in the World, or that They wrote chc Books Ascrib'd to Them. 47. It follows, That no Man (without Divide Inspiration) has more than a Moral Certainty what Books are The Word of God, and that is sufficient, And that being once admitted, That the Holy Scriptures are the Word of God, and written by Inspiration of the Holy-GhoH, We become sure, That every thing in them is True, because God is Infinitely True, and so Qui Faith tiiif; be and often is ftiled Divine Faith, because'"; it is founded iipdn, and Resolv'd into; The Word of God, sd acknowledg'd by the Ge-nerality of Christians, and so appearing to me, by Evidence which produces a Moral Certainty of its being so, and which I have mention'd at large (in my ioth Chap, of the Scriptures.) But this Faith is not properly and strictly Divine, because whether We Receive the Holy Scriptures, upon the Testimony of Fathers, Coun...
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