Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. The Englishman's fire-side - Page 21Full view - About this book
| William Henry Neale - Christianity and other religions - 1828 - 300 pages
...conversion and healing of the nations, save that volume, which, as Locke has beautifully expressed it, " has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any alloy of error for its matter." CHAPTER V. THE SCRIPTURES VINDICATED FROM THE CHARGE OP CORRUPTION... | |
| 2003 - 264 pages
...characteristic Puritan reverence for the inspired word of God. He accepted the Bible as absolutely infallible. ' It has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth without any mixture of error for its matter.' Yet Locke, unlike many Puritans, recognized that the authority of Scripture could not be equated with... | |
| William Oland Bourne - African Americans - 1870 - 834 pages
...allow our children n place where they can learn to read that Book which, as the great Mr. Locke says, has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its mattter, we will not complain of any other exclusion he may insist upon in the matter. But it is alleged... | |
| George Wolfgang Forell - Religion - 1975 - 324 pages
...Bible was written by men divinely inspired, and is a perfect treasure of heavenly instruction; that it has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth without any mixture of error for its matter; that it reveals the principles by which God will judge us; and therefore is, and shall remain to the... | |
| John H. Leith - Religion - 1982 - 760 pages
...Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is a perfect treasure of heavenly instruction; that it has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter; that it reveals the principles by which God will judge us; and therefore is, and will remain to the... | |
| Stanley J. Grenz - Religion - 2002 - 136 pages
...Bible was written by men divinely inspired, and is a perfect treasure of heavenly instruction; that it has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter; that it reveals the principles by which God will judge us; and therefore is, and shall remain to the... | |
| Church of England. Church Pastoral Aid Society - 1858 - 490 pages
...here to testify our reverence, not for a book, but for the Book ; our reverence for that Book which has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its contents ; our reverence for that Book which does not merely contain the revelation of God's will,... | |
| Walter B. Shurden - Fundamentalism - 1993 - 356 pages
...Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine 294 The Struggle for the Soul of the SBC instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. It reveals the principles by which God judges us; and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the... | |
| Ted Campbell - Religion - 1996 - 364 pages
...assertion of the New Hampshire Confession, that the Bible "was written by men divinely inspired . . . that it has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth without any mixture of error, for its matter. . . ."197 We may note, by contrast, that the "Abstract of Principles" of Southern Baptist Theological... | |
| Walter B. Shurden, Randy Shepley - Religion - 1996 - 316 pages
...is the record of God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. It reveals the principles by which God judges us; and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the... | |
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