...them in living the Christian life. The content of Scripture is clearly delineated: "The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith, and life." Scripture was not an encyclopedia of answers to every sort of question for the Divines. Some things...

...that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary unto salvation. . . . VI. The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own...Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men. Nevertheless we acknowledge the inward...

...thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God. . . . The Whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own...Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of Spirit, or traditions of men. . . ." — The Westminster Confession,...

...therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God. . . . The Whole counsel of God conceming all things necessary for His own glory, man's salvation,...Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of Spirit, or traditions of men. . . ." — The Westminster Confession,...

...denied. This is acknowledged by the Westminster Confession, which states that the whole counsel of God 'is either expressly set down in scripture, or by...necessary consequence may be deduced from scripture'. To give a somewhat facetious example, when Matthew tells us that Jesus sat down (Mt. 5:1) it is reason...

...any individual to apprehend truth, it affirmed the supremacy of the Scriptures. "The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life," it insisted in good Calvinist fashion, "is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary...

...American Disciples long before the birth of Alexander Campbell or Barton Stone: "The whole counsel of god, concerning all things necessary for his own...Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men." 1 Reformation Calvinists had their...

...God, to be the rule of faith and life (The Westminster Confession of Faith, 6.002). The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own...Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations or the Spirit, or traditions of men. Nevertheless we acknowledge the inward...

...Confession shows remarkable sensitivity to this issue within the creeds themselves: "The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own...necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture. . . ."187 A creed or a system of doctrine can be expected to be more than a biblical theology in that...

...seventeenth-century Calvinists who wrote the Westminster Confession announced that their theological conclusions were "either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture."7 Calvin would have been more cautious about "deducing." "Scripture," he wrote, "was not...