7 September 2015 A.D. 6th of 39 Articles, “Sufficiency of Holy Scriptures”—Rev. Roger Hutchinson, a sixteenth-century fellow of St. John’s College and Eton College, Cambridge
The Works of Roger Hutchinson
- Author:
Roger Hutchinson
- Editor:
John Bruce
- Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
- Publication
Date: 1842
- Pages: 366
Though little is known about Roger Hutchinson’s life, his works reflect the Reformed theological undercurrent of the English Reformation. This collection, compiled by the evangelical Anglican group the Parker Society, presents his layman’s work The Image of God, and five of his sermons. The Image of God considers how we are to think of God and where we are to draw information from him, advocating the personal reading of Scripture. His sermons deal with the Lord’s Supper and patience during oppression.
Roger Hutchinson was a sixteenth-century fellow of St. John’s College and Eton College, Cambridge.
Roger Hutchinson. M
A. – “God’s book is no imperfect work, but a perfect book, containing all
things to be done, the whole duty of a Christian man, and sufficient doctrine
to instruct a God’s man in all good works, and to make him perfect, as St. Paul
witnesseth, writing to Timothy. (2 Tim. 3). And he must needs accuse God
either of ignorance, or of folly, or of negligence, which saith that he hath
left anything untouched and undeclared, which concerneth a Christian man’s
office, and is needful and necessary unto salvation. All such things be
expressed in God’s book.” – Ser. on Lord’s Supper.
Article VI—Of the Sufficiency of the Holy
Scriptures for Salvation.
Holy Scripture
containeth all things necessary to salvation; so that whatsoever is not read
therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it
should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or
necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do
understand those canonical Books of the Old and New Testament, of whose
authority was never any doubt in the Church.
Of the Names and Number of the Canonical Books.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,
Joshua, Judges, Ruth, The First Book of Samuel, The Second Book of Samuel, The
First Book of Kings, The Second Book of Kings, The First Book of Chronicles,
The Second Book of Chronicles, The First Book of Esdras, The Second Book of
Esdras, The Book of Esther, The Book of Job, The Psalms, The Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes or Preacher, Cantica, or Songs of Solomon, Four Prophets the
greater, Twelve Prophets the less.
And the other Books
(as Hierome saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of
manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine: such are
these following: – The Third Book of Esdras, The Fourth Book of Esdras, The
Book of Tobias, The Book of Judith, The rest of the Book of Esther, The Book of
Wisdom, Jesus the Son of Sirach, Baruch the Prophet, The Song of the Three
Children, The Story of Susanna, Of Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasses,
The First Book of Maccabees, The Second Book of Maccabees.
All the Books of the
New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do receive, and account them
Canonical.
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