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  • The Church Doctrine Of Inspiration,  by B. B. Warfield
    The question is not, whether the doctrine of plenary inspiration has difficulties to face. The question is, whether these difficulties are greater than the difficulty of believing that the whole church of God from the beginning has been deceived in her estimate of the Scriptures committed to her charge--are greater than the difficulty of believing that the college of the apostles, yes and the Christ Himself at their head, were themselves deceived as to the nature of those Scriptures which they gave to the Church as its precious possession, and have deceived with them twenty Christian centuries, and are likely to deceive twenty more before our boasted advancing light has corrected their error--are greater than the difficulty of believing that we have no sure foundation for our faith and no certain warrant for our trust in Christ for salvation."
     

  • The Holy Scriptures - The Canon and Inspiration
    "It is the most important of all books, because, as a matter of historical fact, this book, more than any other force, has molded the character of the great nations of the world and given birth to what we call the modern or Western civilization; because all historic Churches, with one accord, declare it to be the foundation of their creeds - declare that this book is the Word of God; because, in spite of all our divisions, the whole Church really accepts this book as the only infallible and divinely authoritative rule of our faith and practice; and because it is, between all Christians, the standard of appeal on all subjects of debate, the only common ground upon which we stand, the only court of last resort."

     

  • Sola Scriptura, by A. A. Hodge
    "That Scripture is the only infallible voice in the church, and is to be interpreted, in its own light, and with the gracious help of the Holy Ghost, who is promised to every Christian (1 John 2:20-27), by each individual for himself; with the assistance, though not by the authority, of his fellow Christians. Creeds and confessions, as to form, bind only those who voluntarily profess them, and as to matter, they bind only so far as they affirm truly what the Bible teaches, and because the Bible does so teach."
     

  • The Protestant Rule Of Faith, by Charles Hodge
    "ALL Protestants agree in teaching that "the word of God, as contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only infallible rule of faith and practice."

     

  • The Scripture Sufficient Without Unwritten Tradition, by Thomas Manton
    "Proposition.-The Scripture is a sufficient rule of Christian Faith, or a record of all necessary Christian doctrines, without any supplement of unwritten traditions, as containing any necessary matter of faith, and is thus far sufficient for the decision of all controversies."
     

  • The Formation Of The Canon Of The New  Testament, by B. B. Warfield
    In order to obtain a correct understanding of what is called the formation of the Canon of the New Testament, it is necessary to begin by fixing very firmly in our minds one fact which is obvious enough when attention is once called to it. That is, that the Christian church did not require to form for itself the idea of a "canon," - or, as we should more commonly call it, of a "Bible," - that is, of a collection of books given of God to be the authoritative rule of faith and practice. It inherited this idea from the Jewish church, along with the thing itself, the Jewish Scriptures, or the "Canon of the Old Testament." The church did not grow up by natural law: it was founded. And the authoritative teachers sent forth by Christ to found His church, carried with them, as their most precious possession, a body of Divine Scriptures, which they imposed on the church that they founded as its code of law. No reader of the New Testament can need proof of this; on every page of that book is spread the evidence that from the very beginning the Old Testament was as cordially recognized as law by the Christian as by the Jew. The Christian church thus was never without a "Bible" or a "canon."
     

  • Scripture and Tradition, by Dr. Sinclair  Ferguson
  • "The year 1996 marks the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Martin Luther, whose famous Ninety-Five Theses sparked off a religious fire in Europe which the Roman Catholic Church was unable to extinguish. The theological conflict which ensued has often been characterized as focusing on the so-called four- fold "alones" of the Reformation: sola gratia, solo Christo, sola fide, sola Scriptura -- salvation is by grace alone, in Christ alone, by faith alone, and all that is necessary for salvation is taught in Scripture alone. Each of these principles, and certainly all four together, served as a canon by which the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church was assessed and found to be wanting."
     
  • The Sufficiency of the Written Word
    An excellent article answering the Modern    Roman Catholic Apologist, written by Dr. John  F. MacArthur Jr.

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  • Calvin On Continuing Revelation
    "Those who, rejecting Scripture, imagine that they have some peculiar way of penetrating to God, are to be deemed not so much under the influence of error as madness. For certain giddy men have lately appeared, who, while they make a great display of the superiority of the Spirit, reject all reading of the Scriptures themselves, and deride the simplicity of those who only delight in what they call the dead and deadly letter."
     

  • The Inspiration of Scripture, by Loraine Boettner
    "The answer that we are to give to the question, "What is Christianity?" depends quite largely on the view we take of Scripture. If we believe that the Bible is the very word of God and infallible, we will develop one conception of Christianity. If we believe that it is only a collection of human writings, perhaps considerably above the average in its spiritual and moral teachings but nevertheless containing many errors, we will develop a radically different conception of Christianity, if, indeed, what we then have can legitimately be called Christianity. Hence we can hardly over-estimate the importance of a correct doctrine concerning the inspiration of the Scriptures."
     

  • The Word of God, by Michael Bremmer
    "The question is not, whether the doctrine of plenary inspiration has difficulties to face. The question is, whether these difficulties are greater than the difficulty of believing that the whole church of God from the beginning has been deceived in her estimate of the Scriptures committed to her charge--are greater than the difficulty of believing that the college of the apostles, yes and the Christ Himself at their head, were themselves deceived as to the nature of those Scriptures which they gave to the Church as its precious possession, and have deceived with them twenty Christian centuries, and are likely to deceive twenty more before our boasted advancing light has corrected their error--are greater than the difficulty of believing that we have no sure foundation for our faith and no certain warrant for our trust in Christ for salvation" (The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible, p. 128).

     

  • The Cessation of the Charismata, by B. B. Warfield
    "Everywhere, the Apostolic Church was marked out as itself a gift from God, by showing forth the possession of the Spirit in appropriate works of the Spirit--miracles of healing and miracles of power, miracles of knowledge, whether in the form of prophecy or of the discerning of spirits, miracles of speech, whether of the gift of tongues or of their interpretation. The Apostolic Church was characteristically a miracle-working church.
    How long did this state of things continue?"

 

From Christian Resources:

A 3 Volume Biblical and Historical Defense of
 the Reformation Principle of Sola Scriptura

by David T. King and William Webster
                                      



Volume I
A Biblical Defense
of the Reformation
Principle of Sola Scriptura



Volume II
An Historical Defense of the Reformation Principle of Sola Scriptura



Volume III
The Writings of the Church Fathers Affirming
the Reformation Principle of Sola Scriptura

 

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