"....and the entire perfection thereof are arguments whereby it doth
abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God, and establish our
full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine
authority thereof.

"The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own
glory, man's salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down
in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from
Scripture, unto which nothing at any time is to be added by new
revelations of the Spirit.

"Being immediately inspired by God, and by His singular care and
providence kept pure in all ages.... in all controversies of religion
the Church is finally to appeal unto them."

The notion which the learned divines set forth so elaborately at
Westminster, art has expressed in forms much better "understanded of the
people." Mediæval illuminations picture the evangelists copying their
gospels from heavenly books which angels hold open above them.

A book let down out of the skies, immaculate, infallible, oracular--this
is the traditional view of the Bible.

Let me lay before you some of the many reasons why this theory of the
Bible is not to be received by us.