The Supremacy of Holy Scripture, 4 Lects. Composed for Delivery at the Lect. Founded by J. Bampton. to Which Are Added, Two Sermons on the Influences of the Holy Spirit - Softcover

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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. 1847. Excerpt: ... LECTURE IV. ON THE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS GENERALLY We have endeavoured to prove that the Apostolical Fathers, and the Churches over which they presided, or to which they addressed the Epistles which have come down to us, knew nothing of Tradition in the comparatively recent sense of an unwritten word of God, of like authority with Scripture, and of greater practical value as explaining its sense. If this point may be regarded as established, the first link is wanting in the chain of the traditionary system, for we can hardly suppose that those writers who so freely quoted the written documents of the Evangelists and Apostles, would not have referred to their private and supplemental oral communications, had any such existed. Let us, however, proceed to take a wider view The text to this Sermon is wanting in the author's MS. of the general history of the Church, and enquire whether, in point of fact, the doctrine and discipline of the Church were constructed in the first instance, and defended afterwards from the assaults of heretics, by a reference to tradition and authority, or by an appeal to the supreme, infallible, and independent authority of Scripture. It will, of course, be impossible, within the limits of a single discourse, to enter with any minuteness of detail into such a subject, but it will be my object to bring before you a few prominent points on which this whole question turns, and by which a judgment may be formed of its general bearing. These shall be--1st. The Creeds. 2nd. The Controversies. 3rd. The Councils of the Church. 1.--The Creeds. If there is anywhere an Apostolical Tradition of concurrent authority with Scripture it must be in the Creeds, for these are the only early documents in which the faith of the Church, at least du...

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