REV. ALEXANDER M'CAUL, D.D.

RECTOR OF ST. MAGNUS, ST. MARGARET, AND ST. MICHAEL,
PREBENDARY OF ST. PAUL'S,

AND PROCTOR FOR THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF LONDON,
IN THE CONVOCATION OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

LONDON:

RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQuare.

2. Mr. Stephen's theory about the Bible.

3. Refutation of this Theory

4. All the Thirty-nine Articles authoritative

5. "Holy Scriptures" equivalent to 'Word of

God"

6. This confirmed by the language of the Homilies.

7. Illustrated by the Seventeenth, Eighteenth,

Twenty-second, and Thirty-fourth Articles

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8. Vagueness of the authority ascribed to Scripture. 31

9. Refuted by the testimony of Josephus

10. By that of the early Christian Church

11. By that of medieval writers

12. By the Reformers

13. Mr. Stephen's explanation of "Canonical" not

supported by his own authorities

14. Canonical equivalent to Inspired

15. Testimony of modern German Divines to the

same effect

16. The same proved by the Sixth Article .

17. The authority of the Old Testament

18. The question to Deacons

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19. Criticism not left open, nor interpretation

20. Testimony of Chillingworth

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TESTIMONIES

TO THE

DIVINE AUTHORITY AND INSPIRATION

OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

1. THE old-fashioned, straightforward infidels of former times were open enemies to the Church as well as to the Bible. They coveted neither her dignities nor her preferments. They sought not her offices of trust and influence as vantageground for an attack upon her doctrines. In the present day those who deny the divine authority and inspiration of the Bible, assert that this is what the articles and formularies of the Church allow, and that therefore they have a right to hold dignities, parishes, and offices in her universities and schools. All that could be collected in defence of this novel position has been summed up in Mr. Fitzjames Stephen's defence of Dr. Williams. It is more, therefore, than the de

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