This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...ancient, or modern, can bear witness. It is a fact, of which no human observation can take cognisance. It lies beyond the reach of human evidence; it can be proved only by divine testimony, and consequently by Scripture alone. Tradition of Doctrines, writers on systematic Theology, have given the name ofTraditio ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...ancient, or modern, can bear witness. It is a fact, of which no human observation can take cognisance. It lies beyond the reach of human evidence; it can be proved only by divine testimony, and consequently by Scripture alone. Tradition of Doctrines, writers on systematic Theology, have given the name ofTraditio hermeneutica to the former, and the name of Traditio dogmatica to the latter. The same distinction is made by Bishop Burnet in his Exposition of the sixth Article. He there says, " We on the contrary assert, that " the Scriptures are a complete Rule of Faith, and " that the whole Christian Religion is contained in " them, and no where else. And, although we " make great use of Tradition, especially that, which " is most ancient and nearest to the source, for " a clear understanding of the Scriptures, yet as to " matters of Faith, we reject all oral Tradition, as " an incompetent mean of conveying down Doctrines " to us, and we refuse to receive any Doctrine, that " is not either expressly contained in Scripture, or " clearly proved from it V But, if suppressing the distinction, which is here made between the Traditio hermeneutica, and the Traditio dogmatica, men argue, as if the admission of the one implied the admission of the other, they may argue to an agreement between the Churches of England and Rome. But even then their argument is inconclusive. For when the Church of Rome employs Tradition for the interpretation of Scripture, it fem ploys it as something, which has the same authority with Scripture, and consequently as an authority, from which it has not the power to depart. But when the Church of England receives interpretations, which have been handed down from the early ages of Ch...
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