“O how many can be looking their faces in a glass all the morning, but their eyes begin to be sore, when they look upon a Bible! Heathens die in the want of scripture, and these in the contempt of it.”

“Seeing God hath given us his written word to be our directory, this takes away all excuses from men. No man can say, ” I went wrong for want of light.” No, God hath given thee his word, as a lamp to thy feet; therefore now, if thou goest wrong, thou dost it wilfully. No [...]

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“Christianity has no new principle of praise worship to offer…It has nothing to add to the character of God, nothing to tell of His relation to men which had not already been uttered by the Holy Ghost through the men whom He had inspired of old.”

“There has been no change in the basic idea of praise. The eternal God remains the same. He is ‘the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.’ Evangelical Christians agree in the belief that the Canon of revelation is closed. God has accomplished His purpose with men in revelation. There [...]

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“If you would have God’s law sweet, let not ‘wickedness be sweet in your mouth,’ Job 20.12. When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight.”

“For the attaining this blessed delight in the law of God, three things are requisite. Direction 1. Set an high estimate upon the word; what the judgment prizeth, the affections embrace; he that values gold, will delight in it; we are apt, through a principle of Atheism, to entertain slight thoughts of religion, therefore our [...]

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“[Reason] is the Hagar (the bondmaid which should be in subjection to Scripture); not the Sarah (the mistress which presides over Scripture).”

“A ministerial and organic relation is white different from a principle and despotic. Reason holds the former relation to theology, not the latter. It is the Hagar (the bondmaid which should be in subjection to Scripture); not the Sarah (the mistress which presides over Scripture). It ought to compare the things proposed to be believed [...]

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“The authority of the Scriptures thus rests on the simple fact that God’s authoritative agents in founding the Church gave them as authoritative to the Church which they founded.”

“Christianity is often called a book-religion. It would be more exact to say that it is a religion which has a book. Its foundations are laid in apostles and prophets, upon which its courses are built up in the sanctified lives of men; but Christ Jesus alone is its chief corner-stone. He is its only [...]

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“The divine word is authoritative in itself, carrying its own evidence inherently. Consequently, no man has the prerogative to call it into question (Rom 9:20); instead, those who contend with God are required to answer.”

“It is God’s word which must be our ultimate and indisputable presupposition in thought and argumentation, rather than independently supported ‘brute facts’. Christ demonstrated that God’s word (and thus His own teaching) had highest authority in the world of thought; it was the firm starting point, self-validating foundation, and final standard of the truth. As [...]

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“Thus Scripture … is known by itself and has no need of arguments derived from without to prove and make itself known to us.”

“Thus Scripture, which is the first principle in the supernatural order, is known by itself and has no need of arguments derived from without to prove and make itself known to us. If God has stamped such marks upon all first principles that they can be known at once by all men, we cannot doubt [...]

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