1 September 2015 A.D. 6th of 39 Articles, “Sufficiency of Holy Scriptures”—Dr. Thomas Becon, 1 of Cranmer’s 6 Chaplains, Marian Exile, & Elizabethan Canon of Canterbury
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September 2015 A.D. 6th of 39 Articles, “Sufficiency
of Holy Scriptures”—Dr. Thomas Becon, 1 of Cranmer’s 6 Chaplains, Marian Exile,
& Elizabethan Canon of Canterbury
Jones,
Thomas R. “An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles.” NewScriptorium. N.d. http://newscriptorium.com/assets/docs/anglican/39-articles/jones39reformers.htm. Accessed 7 Jun 2015.
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Exposition of the Thirty Nine Articles, By the Reformers: Extracts carefully
and fully selected from the Works of Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer, Hooper, Jewel,
Philpot, Pilkington, Coverdale, Becon, Bradford, Sandys, Grindal, Whitgift,
Etc.
Thomas Becon, D.D. –
“So becometh it all men to do, not rashly to admit and receive, nor yet
furiously to condemn at the first sight, but as St. Paul saith, ‘to prove all
things, and to choose and hold that which is best.’ Things must be proved
by the Scriptures, and not by the spirit of pride, contention, despite, and
contumacy. Christ and Christ’s truth is only learned of the Holy
Scriptures. They that teach any other thing than the Scriptures, teach
not Christ, but human inventions. Neither ought any thing as a necessary
truth to be believed under pain of damnation, nor to be admitted in the Church
of Christ, except it may be established by the Holy Scripture and pure word of
God. ... Hereto agreeth Origen. ‘It is needful,’ saith he, ‘to call the
Holy Scriptures into witness, for our judgments and expositions without these
witnesses have no faith.’ Also, St. Jerome, ‘that, we affirm must be
established and approved with the testimonies of the Holy Scriptures, in the
which God speaketh daily to them that believe.’” – Pref. to ‘Potation, for
Lent.’
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