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The dominant message of the New Testament is to love.
New Testament = the second half of the Christian Bible which describes the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
- She describes herself as a "New Testament Christian" who doesn't know much about the Old Testament.
- I read the New Testament, once quickly, then a second time more slowly, pausing to make notes, to cross-reference, and even to write short essays on doctrines like faith and sacrifice.† (source)
- On one of the first days I spent at home after quitting my job, I was sitting there feeling blue about my inability to connect with Cassie, when I remembered that my brother and his wife had once given her a "teen" Bible—a New Testament with a sort of study guide giving young readers insights into dealing with their parents.† (source)
- How well do you know the New Testament?† (source)
- A crack and a shudder, a bullet zinging off an old dismantled press, and in the upstairs apartment Frau Elena sits in her striped ski parka, an abridged New Testament zipped into the pocket, holding the hands of the girls and moving her lips in soundless prayer.† (source)
- She accompanied them as they sang the titles of the books of the New Testament to the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers"—"Math-thew, Ma-ark, Lu-uke and John, Acts and the Let-ters to the Ro-mans...."† (source)
- Now I heard my Aunt Martha join Dan; but the two of them were no match for Mr. Chickering, who had started weeping even before the ministers began their readings of the Old and the New Testament.† (source)
- As Christians we leaned heavily on teachings of the New Testament, and I didn't know the first things about books like Joshua or Ruth or Joel.† (source)
- On the page before the New Testament begins, there's a section called "Deaths," and that's where she wrote "Bing Hsu" lightly, in erasable pencil.† (source)
- She hadn't known that Muslims consider the Qur'an the fourth book of God to His messengers, after the Old Testament (referred to as the Tawrat, or the Law), the Psalms (the Zabur), and the New Testament (Injeil).† (source)
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- This is the Old and New Testament, and ...† (source)
- To give me a new project as well, Father asked Mr. Kleiman for a children's Bible so I could finally learn something about the New Testament.† (source)
- The sociologist Robert Merton famously called this phenomenon the "Matthew Effect" after the New Testament verse in the Gospel of Matthew: "For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance.† (source)
- Kiowa, a devout Baptist, carried an illustrated New Testament that had been presented to him by his father, who taught Sunday school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.† (source)
- The New Testament Mommy loved God.† (source)
- Okay, so not everyone is a Christian around these parts, nor do those who would say they are necessarily have more than a nodding familiarity with the New Testament, aside from John 3:16, which is always beside the goalposts at football games.† (source)
- It got so that it didn't matter what Bible story she or I read to our tiny evangelist at night, whether from the Old Testament, the New Testament, about Moses or Noah or King Solomon, Colton wrapped up the night with the same message: "Jesus loves the children!† (source)
- We were on our third complete reading of the New Testament since leaving Scheveningen.† (source)
- The class had looked at it blankly, seeing nothing but a jumble of whites and blacks, senseless and patternless Then one of the children in the third row had gasped, "It's Jesus!" and that child had gone home with a brand-new Testament and also a calendar because he had been first.† (source)
- Christianity also has a Semitic background, but the New Testament was written in Greek, and when the Christian theology or creed was formulated, it was influenced by Greek and Latin, and thus also by Hellenistic philosophy.† (source)
- The 104th were with the rest in Barracks 7—all except Pavlo, the deputy squad leader, who moved his lips as he totted something up with a pencil, and Alyosha, Shukhov's clean and tidy neighbor, who was reading from a notebook in which he'd copied out half the New Testament.† (source)
- She roots through some well-worn references-a little New Testament, a little self-help.† (source)
- He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament.† (source)
- But although the New Testament is very clear about this coming to pass, it is a bit muddier on the details: the when, the why, the how.† (source)
- They believe that Jesus was also God's prophet and that the New Testament is a holy book.† (source)
- His code was simple New Testament ethic, its rewards were the respect and devotion of all who knew him.† (source)
- Kinna, who had become fluent in English and memorized most of the New Testament, would field theological questions from local ministers and churchgoers and dazzle them with his Yale-tutored answers.† (source)
- I always wondered why they didn't name those boys in New Testament order.† (source)
- In your simple, straightforward, bigoted way, Bessie, you've sounded the missing keynote of the whole New Testament.† (source)
- Later on I would find a different kind of accuracy, a moral down-to-earthness to which I responded deeply and always will, in the war poetry of Wilfred Owen, a poetry where a New Testament sensibility suffers and absorbs the shock of the new century's barbarism.† (source)
- Most liturgical texts bring together the concepts of the Old and the New Testament and put them side by side.† (source)
- They lingered in Ecclesiastes with The race is not to the swift, and Remember now thy Creator, and then, hesitantly, because it was beautiful and hard to understand, Lena moved into the New Testament, saying, "If ye love me, keep my commandments."† (source)
- He wanted to return to early Christianity as it was in the New Testament.† (source)
- And Da Vinci's views on the New Testament?† (source)
- Kiowa always took along his New Testament and a pair of moccasins for silence.† (source)
- Inside were a pair of moccasins and an illustrated New Testament.† (source)
- But you told me the New Testament is based on fabrications.† (source)
- Ellen left, but she never returned with the New Testament.† (source)
- In all the time I'd been with Shay, he had never quoted the New Testament.† (source)
- Is that from the Old Testament or the New Testament?† (source)
- Ellen also had a New Testament, which she said she would allow me to borrow sometime.† (source)
- This treasured book, like all Masonic Bibles, contained the Old Testament, the New Testament, and a treasure trove of Masonic philosophical writings.† (source)
- As you may recall, that story, from the New Testament Gospel of Luke, tells of a traveler who has been beaten and robbed and left for dead by the side of the road from Jerusalem to Jericho.† (source)
- " Thus he led us into the New Testament Lesson, beginning with that little bit of bravery from Romans: " 'I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing to the glory that is to be revealed to us.'† (source)
- But beneath the surface of the Scriptures in the New Testament is Jesus, who could well be called God's mouthpiece.† (source)
- I'm not very sophisticated in my knowledge of the Old Testament, and I've not read the New Testament since my Sunday school days, except for those passages that I hear read aloud to me when I go to church.† (source)
- And presenting to the world thousands of ancient documents as scientific evidence that the New Testament is false testimony.† (source)
- He liked the smell of the New Testament under his cheek, the leather and ink and paper and glue, whatever the chemicals were.† (source)
- More than eighty gospels were considered for the New Testament, and yet only a relative few were chosen for inclusion—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John among them.† (source)
- There were Christians among us, like Kiowa, who believed in the New Testament stories of life after death.† (source)
- He wanted to say more, just to lighten up his sleep, but instead he opened his New Testament and arranged it beneath his head as a pillow.† (source)
- The kid's father taught Sunday school in Oklahoma City, where Kiowa had been raised to believe in the promise of salvation under Jesus Christ, and this conviction had always been present in the boy's smile, in his posture toward the world, in the way he never went anywhere without an illustrated New Testament that his father had mailed to him as a birthday present back in January.† (source)
- I sat in the splintered, carved-up desk and imagined that the stone man could see me, the same way I had once imagined the Wilkins crew with all of their New Testament names could rise above the graves in Whispering Pines and look into my bedroom window.† (source)
- If God had wanted somebody with St. Francis's consistently winning personality for the job in the New Testament, he'd've picked him, you can be sure.† (source)
- The teachings were coming primarily out of the New Testament, and most of the tribesmen thought Jesus and his father were wise and benevolent, much like their own great spirit Ngewo who lived far above the clouds.† (source)
- I don't know if you remember, but I remember a time around here, buddy, when you were going through a little apostasy from the New Testament that could be heard for miles around.† (source)
- The New Testament—in particular, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—were the ones that the orthodoxy chose to uphold.† (source)
- The part that stumps me, really stumps me, is that I can't see why anybody—unless he was a child, or an angel, or a lucky simpleton like the pilgrim—would even want to say the prayer to a Jesus who was the least bit different from the way he looks and sounds in the New Testament.† (source)
- You could bring me your New Testament.† (source)
- "Then the books of the New Testament were just an editorial decision someone once had to make," I said.† (source)
- They were scientifically dated from the second century, roughly thirty to eighty years younger than the gospels in the New Testament.† (source)
- What if the gospels that had been dismissed and debunked were the real ones, and the ones that had been picked for the New Testament were the embellished versions?† (source)
- The others made their way to religious scholars, who dated them to have been written around A.D. 140, about thirty years after the New Testament—and deciphered them to find the names of gospels not found in the Bible, full of sayings that were in the New Testament...and many that weren't.† (source)
- I did not know the New Testament, but I recognized a biblical passage when I heard one—and it didn't take a rocket scientist to realize that he was suggesting Shay's antics, or whatever you wanted to call them, were heaven-sent.† (source)
- Minutes counted now; I remembered, however, seeing the Mexican faces that listened to this wrangle as if it were the New Testament.† (source)
- He watches over them and counts them, as we do our cattle; Christ says so in the New Testament.† (source)
- Perhaps you'll swear it on the New Testament?† (source)
- It was the New Testament in the Russian translation.† (source)
- At the end of six months he had read through the New Testament, and could find any text in it.† (source)
- What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?† (source)
- Well—that's more for the men who are in training for bishops, that they may be able to read the New Testament in the original.† (source)
- The New Testament was less a Christiad then a Pauliad to his intelligence—less an argument than an intoxication.† (source)
- Temple stood up and, pushing past Cranly, addressed Glynn: —That phrase you said now, he said, is from the new testament about suffer the children to come to me.† (source)
- Having fairly well advanced his own affairs, Angel listened in a willing silence, as they jogged on together through the shady lanes, to his father's account of his parish difficulties, and the coldness of brother clergymen whom he loved, because of his strict interpretations of the New Testament by the light of what they deemed a pernicious Calvinistic doctrine.† (source)
- It leads you out of the maze into a new gaudy lecture-room where MacCann, with one hand on THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and the other hand on the new testament, tells you that you admired the great flanks of Venus because you felt that she would bear you burly offspring and admired her great breasts because you felt that she would give good milk to her children and yours.† (source)
- He had left his cottage at half-past three, intending to be sitting down again to the New Testament by half-past five.† (source)
- The kettle of his gift sang with some satire in its note, to his mind; and to change the subject he said, "Do you know of any good readable edition of the uncanonical books of the New Testament?† (source)
- "Jude," she said brightly, when he had finished and come back to her; "will you let me make you a NEW New Testament, like the one I made for myself at Christminster?"† (source)
- He had dabbled in Clarke's Homer, but had never yet worked much at the New Testament in the Greek, though he possessed a copy, obtained by post from a second-hand bookseller.† (source)
- There was the resentful Sunday of a little later, when he sat down glowering and glooming through the tardy length of the day, with a sullen sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters.† (source)
- Alexey Alexandrovitch looked idly about at the endless familiar portraits which adorned the room, and sitting down to the table, he opened a New Testament lying upon it.† (source)
- Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He acts; make His word your rule, and His conduct your example.† (source)
- So far as Tom had gained any acquaintance with the Romans at Mr. Jacob's academy, his knowledge was strictly correct, but it went no farther than the fact that they were "in the New Testament"; and Mr. Stelling was not the man to enfeeble and emasculate his pupil's mind by simplifying and explaining, or to reduce the tonic effect of etymology by mixing it with smattering, extraneous information, such as is given to girls.† (source)
- And do you know I must say, sir,' he continued, mildly laying his head on one side, 'that I DON'T find authority for Mr. and Miss Murdstone in the New Testament?'† (source)
- But Tom, as we see, being a poor, ignorant fellow, whose reading had been confined entirely to the New Testament, could not comfort and solace himself with views like these.† (source)
- I had a book of Scripture history then with excellent pictures, called A Hundred and Four Stories from the Old and New Testament, and I learned to read from it.† (source)
- While I lived with my master in St. Michael's, there was a white young man, a Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament.† (source)
- For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation.† (source)
- Sometimes his lips moved in semi-articulation—it was when he came to a speech that he could fancy himself uttering, such as Samuel's dying speech to the people; then his eyebrows would be raised, and the corners of his mouth would quiver a little with sad sympathy—something, perhaps old Isaac's meeting with his son, touched him closely; at other times, over the New Testament, a very solemn look would come upon his face, and he would every now and then shake his head in serious assent, or just lift up his hand and let it fall again.† (source)
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And yet, this want may be supplied us;
We call the Supernatural to guide us;
We pine and thirst for Revelation,
Which nowhere worthier is, more nobly sent,
Than here, in our New Testament.† (source)
- Elnathan, then about fifteen, was, much like a wild colt, caught and trimmed by clipping his bushy locks; dressed in a suit of homespun, dyed in the butternut bark; furnished with a "New Testament" and a "Webster's Spelling Book," and sent to school.† (source)
- I took up the New Testament from the table, the Russian translation, and showed him the Gospel of St. John, chapter xii.† (source)
- The rich man, who had in a manner revised the New Testament, and already entered into the kingdom of Heaven.† (source)
- She was a direct embodiment and personification of the New Testament,—a living fact, to be accounted for, and to be accounted for in no other way than by its truth.† (source)
- To him she seemed something almost divine; and whenever her golden head and deep blue eyes peered out upon him from behind some dusky cotton-bale, or looked down upon him over some ridge of packages, he half believed that he saw one of the angels stepped out of his New Testament.† (source)
- The names of the Jewish patriarchs and those of the holy places in Palestine do not appear among their place-names; their Christianity seems to have been exclusively of the New Testament.† (source)
- And calling himself a Frenchy for the shawls, Joseph Manuo, and talking against the Catholic religion, and he serving mass in Adam and Eve's when he was young with his eyes shut, who wrote the new testament, and the old testament, and hugging and smugging.† (source)
- The New Testament was not yet published in one Body.† (source)
- All which ways he used also in the New Testament.† (source)
- In the Old Testament, the sign of Admission was Circumcision; in the New Testament, Baptisme.† (source)
- Places Of The New Testament For Purgatory Answered† (source)
- The New Testament Began To Be Canonicall Under Christian Soveraigns† (source)
- This morning I began seriously to ponder on what is written in the New Testament, resolving to read a chapter every morning and night as long an my thoughts would engage me.† (source)
- As for the Books of the New Testament, they are equally acknowledged for Canon by all Christian Churches, and by all sects of Christians, that admit any Books at all for Canonicall.† (source)
- which," he said, "let the word charity have what construction it would, it sufficiently appeared to be from the whole tenor of the New Testament.† (source)
- In the time of the New Testament, there was no Soveraign Prophet, but our Saviour; who was both God that spake, and the Prophet to whom he spake.† (source)
- And therefore the Scripture of the New Testament is there only Law, where the lawfull Civill Power hath made it so.† (source)
- Timothy was an Elder (which word Elder, in the New Testament is a name of Office, as well as of Age;) yet he was also a Bishop.† (source)
- But he alledgeth other places of the New Testament, that are not so easie to be answered: And first that of Matth.† (source)
- But there be other places of the New Testament, where an Immortality seemeth to be directly attributed to the wicked.† (source)
- And consequently, the Books of the New Testament, though most perfect Rules of Christian Doctrine, could not be made Laws by any other authority then that of Kings, or Soveraign Assemblies.† (source)
- That the New Testament should in this sense be Canonicall, that is to say, a Law in any place where the Law of the Common-wealth had not made it so, is contrary to the nature of a Law.† (source)
- But the time wherein the Books of the New Testament were received, and acknowledged by the Church to be of their writing, is not altogether so ancient.† (source)
- and in the New Testament there was but one onely mark; and that was the preaching of this Doctrine, That Jesus Is The Christ, that is, the King of the Jews, promised in the Old Testament.† (source)
- Our Saviour here speaketh of the Scriptures onely of the Old Testament; for the Jews at that time could not search the Scriptures of the New Testament, which were not written.† (source)
- In summe, the Histories and the Prophecies of the old Testament, and the Gospels, and Epistles of the New Testament, have had one and the same scope, to convert men to the obedience of God; 1.† (source)
- And in the New Testament (Mat.† (source)
- The first enumeration of all the Bookes, both of the Old, and New Testament, is in the Canons of the Apostles, supposed to be collected by Clement the first (after St. Peter) Bishop of Rome.† (source)
- I see not therefore any reason to doubt, but that the Old, and New Testament, as we have them now, are the true Registers of those things, which were done and said by the Prophets, and Apostles.† (source)
- Besides these Magisteriall employments in the Church, namely Apostles, Bishops, Elders, Pastors, and Doctors, whose calling was to proclaim Christ to the Jews, and Infidels, and to direct, and teach those that beleeved we read in the New Testament of no other.† (source)
- Nor in the New Testament is there any place, out of which it can be proved, that Angels (except when they are put for such men, as God hath made the Messengers, and Ministers of his word, or works) are things permanent, and withall incorporeall.† (source)
- And in the New testament, the Angel Gabriel saith of our Saviour (Luke 1.32,33) "He shall be great, and be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord shall give him the throne of his Father David; and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his Kingdome there shall be no end."† (source)
- and such controversies in the New Testament at this day, amongst the Spirituall Prophets: Every man then was, and now is bound to make use of his Naturall Reason, to apply to all Prophecy those Rules which God hath given us, to discern the true from the false.† (source)
- But the many places of the New Testament, and our Saviours own words, and in such texts, wherein is no suspicion of corruption of the Scripture, have extorted from my feeble Reason, an acknowledgement, and beleef, that there be also Angels substantiall, and permanent.† (source)
- Fourthly, the giving to their Priests (which is no more in the New Testament but Presbyters, that is, Elders) the name of Sacerdotes, that is, Sacrificers, which was the title of the Civill Soveraign, and his publique Ministers, amongst the Jews, whilest God was their King.† (source)
- The Writers of the New Testament lived all in lesse then an age after Christs Ascension, and had all of them seen our Saviour, or been his Disciples, except St. Paul, and St. Luke; and consequently whatsoever was written by them, is as ancient as the time of the Apostles.† (source)
- Another relique of Gentilisme, is the Worship of Images, neither instituted by Moses in the Old, nor by Christ in the New Testament; nor yet brought in from the Gentiles; but left amongst them, after they had given their names to Christ.† (source)
- In the proper sense, that which is made Holy by Gods appropriating or separating it to his own use, is said to be Sanctified by God, as the Seventh day in the fourth Commandement; and as the Elect in the New Testament were said to bee Sanctified, when they were endued with the Spirit of godlinesse.† (source)
- All which Doctrine is founded onely on some of the obscurer places of the New Testament; which neverthelesse, the whole scope of the Scripture considered, are cleer enough in a different sense, and unnecessary to the Christian Faith.† (source)
- &C) to know a Spirit by: and seeing there is so much Prophecying in the Old Testament; and so much Preaching in the New Testament against Prophets; and so much greater a number ordinarily of false Prophets, then of true; every one is to beware of obeying their directions, at their own perill.† (source)
- That which may seem to give the New Testament, in respect of those that have embraced Christian Doctrine, the force of Laws, in the times, and places of persecution, is the decrees they made amongst themselves in their Synods.† (source)
- To the contrary, I find the KINGDOME OF GOD, to signifie in most places of Scripture, a Kingdome Properly So Named, constituted by the Votes of the People of Israel in peculiar manner; wherein they chose God for their King by Covenant made with him, upon Gods promising them the possession of the land of Canaan; and but seldom metaphorically; and then it is taken for Dominion Over Sinne; (and only in the New Testament;) because such a Dominion as that, every Subject shall have in the Kingdome of God, and without prejudice to the Soveraign.† (source)
- in the apparition of a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: And after the time of Moses, (where the manner how God spake immediately to man in the Old Testament, is expressed) hee spake alwaies by a Vision, or by a Dream; as to Gideon, Samuel, Eliah, Elisha, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the rest of the Prophets; and often in the New Testament, as to Joseph, to St. Peter, to St. Paul, and to St. John the Evangelist in the Apocalypse.† (source)
- To the Virgin Mary, by a Vision of an Angel: To Joseph in a Dream: again to Paul in the way to Damascus in a Vision of our Saviour: and to Peter in the Vision of a sheet let down from heaven, with divers sorts of flesh, of clean and unclean, beasts; and in prison, by Vision of an Angel: And to all the Apostles, and Writers of the New Testament, by the graces of his Spirit; and to the Apostles again (at the choosing of Matthias in the place of Judas Iscariot) by lot.† (source)
- And therefore by the aforesaid rule, of Cui Bono, we may justly pronounce for the Authors of all this Spirituall Darknesse, the Pope, and Roman Clergy, and all those besides that endeavour to settle in the mindes of men this erroneous Doctrine, that the Church now on Earth, is that Kingdome of God mentioned in the Old and New Testament.† (source)
- There be also other Consecrations, that may be called Sacraments, as the word implyeth onely Consecration to Gods service; but as it implies an oath, or promise of Alleageance to God, there were no other in the Old Testament, but Circumcision, and the Passover; nor are there any other in the New Testament, but Baptisme, and the Lords Supper.† (source)
- endeavoured to passe their Doctrine, not for Counsell, and Information, as Preachers; but for Laws, as absolute Governours; and thought such frauds as tended to make the people the more obedient to Christian Doctrine, to be pious; yet I am perswaded they did not therefore falsifie the Scriptures, though the copies of the Books of the New Testament, were in the hands only of the Ecclesiasticks; because if they had had an intention so to doe, they would surely have made them more favorable to their power over Christian Princes, and Civill Soveraignty, than they are.† (source)
- Seeing then our Saviour, and his Apostles, left not new Laws to oblige us in this world, but new Doctrine to prepare us for the next; the Books of the New Testament, which containe that Doctrine, untill obedience to them was commanded, by them that God hath given power to on earth to be Legislators, were not obligatory Canons, that is, Laws, but onely good, and safe advice, for the direction of sinners in the way to salvation, which every man might take, and refuse at his owne perill, without injustice.† (source)
- The Commemoration of it in the Old Testament, was the Eating (at a certain time, which was Anniversary) of the Paschall Lamb; by which they were put in mind of the night wherein they were delivered out of their bondage in Egypt; and in the New Testament, the celebrating of the Lords Supper; by which, we are put in mind, of our deliverance from the bondage of sin, by our Blessed Saviours death upon the crosse.† (source)
- But after this Doctrine, "that the Church now Militant, is the Kingdome of God spoken of in the Old and New Testament," was received in the World; the ambition, and canvasing for the Offices that belong thereunto, and especially for that great Office of being Christs Lieutenant, and the Pompe of them that obtained therein the principal Publique Charges, became by degrees so evident, that they lost the inward Reverence due to the Pastorall Function: in so much as the Wisest men, of them that had any power in the Civill State, needed nothing but the authority of their Princes, to deny them any further Obedience.† (source)
- They beleeved the Apostles, and after them the Pastors and Doctors of the Church, that recommended to their faith the History of the Old and New Testament: so that the Faith of Christians ever since our Saviours time, hath had for foundation, first, the reputation of their Pastors, and afterward, the authority of those that made the Old and New Testament to be received for the Rule of Faith; which none could do but Christian Soveraignes; who are therefore the Supreme Pastors, and the onely Persons, whom Christians now hear speak from God; except such as God speaketh to, in these days supernaturally.† (source)
- Thus wee see how the Power Ecclesiasticall was left by our Saviour to the Apostles; and how they were (to the end they might the better exercise that Power,) endued with the Holy Spirit, which is therefore called sometime in the New Testament Paracletus which signifieth an Assister, or one called to for helpe, though it bee commonly translated a Comforter.† (source)
- By the Writings of the Fathers that lived in the time before that Christian Religion was received, and authorised by Constantine the Emperour, we may find, that the Books wee now have of the New Testament, were held by the Christians of that time (except a few, in respect of whose paucity the rest were called the Catholique Church, and others Haeretiques) for the dictates of the Holy Ghost; and consequently for the Canon, or Rule of Faith: such was the reverence and opinion they had of their Teachers; as generally the reverence that the Disciples bear to their first Masters, in all manner of doctrine they receive from them, is not small.† (source)
- For, as the Bookes of the Old Testament are derived to us, from no higher time then that of Esdras, who by the direction of Gods Spirit retrived them, when they were lost: Those of the New Testament, of which the copies were not many, nor could easily be all in any one private mans hand, cannot bee derived from a higher time, that that wherein the Governours of the Church collected, approved, and recommended them to us, as the writings of those Apostles and Disciples; under whose names they go.† (source)
- The New Testament† (source)
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