RECTOR OF ST. MAGNUS, ST. MARGARET, AND ST. MICHAEL, PREBENDARY OF ST. PAUL'S, IN THE CONVOCATION OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY. LONDON: RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. PAGE . . 2. Mr. Stephen's theory about the Bible . 4. All the Thirty-nine Articles authoritative 5. “Holy Scriptures” equivalent to “ Word of 6. This confirmed by the language of the Homilies . 20 7. Illustrated by the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-second, and Thirty-fourth Articles 25 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 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 16. The same proved by the Sixth Article . . . . 277207 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 B |
