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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. 1849. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... papistical synagogue--is but as the voice of the handmaid or as the voice of a crier, which is to publish and to proclaim that voice of God, full of excellency, speaking in the Scripture. But the Scripture in the heart of the Church, that is, the maxims of God's truth written in the hearts of the faithful, they be nothing else but a certain secondary Scripture, taken out by the Holy Ghost out of that primary and most sacred Scripture, and engraven in the minds of men. For how much, think you, of that full measure of the prophetical and apostolical Scripture is there taken forth and engraven in our minds? I say, that if all men's hearts were bound together, yet all they could not comprehend all those things fully and perfectly, which be recorded in the prophetical and apostolical Scriptures. For the Catholic Church, so long as it is conversant on the earth, is not capable of all that light which shineth in the sacred Scriptures of the Apostles and the Prophets. Let their first principle be thus beaten down, and their corollary or second conclusion, to wit, that the voice of the Church is most manifest both in itself and unto us, will fall to the ground of its own accord; and so both principles being shaken, their conclusion, which they infer, is of no strength to stand, but must fall away. CHAPTER IX. OF THE FIRST PROPRIETY 1 OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURE. We are now to proceed, and to make it manifest that the holy J^^nUe Scripture is of greatest antiquity; and this is the first propriety moitliidcnt. before ascribed to the Scripture. Here, first, we be to find ont the divers acceptations of this word Scripture. This word Scripture may ^"r1"!,1,"" be taken either for the matter only, and the very substance which s^1v*1""is contained in the words and letters; or not on...
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