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


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
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.
An 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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