...mine). We see then that according to the Westminster Divines the Holy Spirit speaking in Scripture is the Supreme Judge "by which all controversies of religion are to be determined," and that "It belongeth to synods and councils, ministerially, to determine controversies offaith." In other...

...scripture (which is not manifold but one), it must be seached by other places that speak more clearly. 10. The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion...sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the holy scripture delivered by the Spirit, into which (Matt. xxii. 29, 31; Eph. ii. 20; Acts. xxviii. 23) scripture...

...SpiriL bearing witness by and with the word in our hearts' (Westminster Confession of Faith, i. 5), "The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of...spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we resL can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture' (l. 10), "* 'Internal perspicuity'...

...passages on the basis of clear ones is based on the principle that Scripture interprets Scripture, because "the supreme judge, by which all controversies of...can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture."64 These other authorities, the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox understandings of...

...theologians see as the classic statement of what might be called the Protestant principle of authority:3 "The Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of...in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other than the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture."4 In keeping with the Reformation concern to bind Word...

...identical discussions of the Scriptures in the three texts. Where the Westminster Confession asserts that the "Supreme Judge by which all Controversies of Religion are to be determined, and all Decrees of Councels, Opinions of Ancient Writers, Doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined; and,...

...itself over the Holy Spirit's speech, closing the paragraph by asserting that the "Supream Judge ... in whose Sentence we are to rest, can be no other, but the holy Scripture delivered by the Spirit; into which Scripture so delivered, our Faith is finally resolved."...

...not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.21 10. The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion...can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.24 02. Of God and the Holy Trinity 01. There is but one only25 living and true God,26 who...

...Scripture without reference to the Confession, aff1rming in the very words of the Confession "that the Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion...in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other than the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scriptures." Noting that for seeking to "obviate" certain "expressions"...

...is, states the Confession (1:10), that "the supreme Judge by which all controversies of religion 171 are to be determined, and all decrees of councils,...other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture." In good Reformational tradition, the Westminster Confession (1:4-5) claims: The authority of the Holy...