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Preaching on Galatians 4:22-26, Thomas Brightman observed that the sense of scripture is the teaching of scripture:
It is written. I where? Ans. Nowhere in express words, but it is gathered out of the 16 Chap. and 21 Chap. of Genesis: as if he had said, by conference of Scripture, it may be gathered. Whence ariseth this observation: That the sense and collection of the Scripture, is rightly called Scripture; although the sense is not in express & entire terms, anywhere: and this is oft used in the Epistle to the Hebrews: This is to be noted against Arius Sabellius and such Heretics, who when they did impugn the Divinity of Christ, and the distinction of Persons in the unity of Essence in the blessed Trinity, they did condemn the names and words of Essence, Consubstantial, Subsistence, Unity, Trinity, which were used of the ancient Fathers; to open these mysteries, they I say, accused them of Novelty and falsehood; because not found expressly in the Scripture. But by this place of Paul we learn that there is no need that every word and syllable be found in the Scripture, so that if the reason thereof be manifest out of the true sense of the Scripture, it is all one; as if it had been written: ...
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It is written. I where? Ans. Nowhere in express words, but it is gathered out of the 16 Chap. and 21 Chap. of Genesis: as if he had said, by conference of Scripture, it may be gathered. Whence ariseth this observation: That the sense and collection of the Scripture, is rightly called Scripture; although the sense is not in express & entire terms, anywhere: and this is oft used in the Epistle to the Hebrews: This is to be noted against Arius Sabellius and such Heretics, who when they did impugn the Divinity of Christ, and the distinction of Persons in the unity of Essence in the blessed Trinity, they did condemn the names and words of Essence, Consubstantial, Subsistence, Unity, Trinity, which were used of the ancient Fathers; to open these mysteries, they I say, accused them of Novelty and falsehood; because not found expressly in the Scripture. But by this place of Paul we learn that there is no need that every word and syllable be found in the Scripture, so that if the reason thereof be manifest out of the true sense of the Scripture, it is all one; as if it had been written: ...
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Thomas Brightman: The sense of scripture is of equal authority with explicit statements
Preaching on Galatians 4:22-26, Thomas Brightman observed that the sense of scripture is the teaching of scripture: It is written. I where? Ans. Nowhere in express words, but it is gathered out of …
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