Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1841. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The sufficiency of holy Scripture as the rule of faith, a sermon Daniel Wilson (bp. of Calcutta.) ADVERTISEMENT. In transcribing his manuscript for the press, * the author has recast many parts of the discourse, and made several additions and alterations in the details of the argument. The pamphlet, also, in the series of the " Tracts for the Times," No. 90, having reached him, he has substituted some remarks upon it, in the place of those which he had delivered on similar, but less open invasions of our Thirty-nine Articles of Religion. The substance of the Sermon remains unaltered. He desires humbly to commend it, feeble and imperfect as it is, to the grace and blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, In This Alarming Crisis Of His Church. Bishop's Palace, Calcutta, August 16th, 1841. SERMON. 2 Timothy iii. 16, 17. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. It cannot be dissembled that a great controversy is agitating the Church at home on the question of the rule of faith. It might have been thought, indeed, that the decision of the apostle in the text would have long since, and for ever, settled this vital point in our Protestant Church. But such is the corruption of our nature, and such the aversion of the human heart from the simple truth of the Gospei; and I may add, such the decay of the knowledge of the doctrines of the Reformation amougst us, that no topic has been, for the last few years, more strongly contested. h. appears at the present jccdeiit fcs be the main cc.;ect ci the assart cc Satao, tz.-j £-eat scir-r-ial adversary...
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