A Disputation on Holy Scripture

Name: A Disputation on Holy Scripture
Author: William Whitaker

William Whitaker (1548–1595) was an English Reformed theologian at Cambridge, champion of the Calvinistic teaching of the Elizabethan church. He became Regius Professor of Divinity in 1580 and Master of St John's College in 1586, and helped frame the Lambeth Articles of 1595. His Disputation on Holy Scripture (1588), held in our library, answers Bellarmine and Stapleton and remains a classic defense of Scripture's authority and sufficiency.

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First published: 1849
Category: Theology
Length: 295k words · about 20 hours
Chapters: 89

About this book

Preface
Chapter I. Wherein This Whole Controversy Is Distributed into Its Particular Questions
Chapter II. Concerning the State of the First Question
Chapter III. Concerning Those Heretics Who Were Guilty of Sacrilege Against the Sacred and Canonical Scriptures
Chapter IV. Wherein the Argument of the Adversaries Is Proposed and Confuted
Chapter V. Wherein Reasons Are Alleged Against the Books of the Second Kind
Chapter VI. Wherein the Truth of Our Cause Is Illustrated by Other Testimonies
Chapter VII. Of the Book of Baruch
Chapter VIII. Of the Seven Apocryphal Chapters of Esther
Chapter IX. Of the Apocryphal Parts of Daniel 🔒
Chapter X. Of the Book of Tobit 🔒
Chapter XI. Of the Book of Judith 🔒
Chapter XII. Of the Book of Wisdom 🔒
Chapter XIII. Of the Book of Ecclesiasticus 🔒
Chapter XIV. Of the Books of Maccabees 🔒
Chapter XV. Of the Books Allowed by the Papists to Be Apocryphal 🔒
Chapter XVI. Of the Books of the New Testament 🔒
Chapter I. The State of 🔒
Chapter II. Of the Hebrew Edition 🔒
Chapter III. Of the Greek Version by the Seventy Translators of the Hebrew Books 🔒
Chapter IV. Of Other Greek Translations of the Old Testament 🔒
Chapter V. Of the Greek Edition of the New Testament 🔒
Chapter VI. Of the Latin Vulgate Edition 🔒
Chapter VII. Wherein an Answer Is Given to the Arguments of Our Opponents, Whereby They Endeavour to Prove That the Latin Vulgate Edition Is Authentic 🔒
Chapter VIII. In Which an Answer Is Given to the Ten Reasons of the Anglo-Rhemist Translators, Whereby They Endeavour to Prove the Authority of the Vulgate Version in the New Testament 🔒
Chapter IX. Wherein the Arguments Are Explained Whereby the Latin Vulgate Edition Is Proved Not to Be the Authentic Scripture 🔒
Chapter X. Wherein Certain Corrupt Places in the Vulgate Edition of the Old Testament Are Set Forth 🔒
Chapter XI. Of the Latin Edition of the Psalms and Its Manifold Corruptions 🔒
Chapter XII. Of Corruptions in the Latin Edition of the New Testament 🔒
Chapter XIII. Wherein the State of the Question Concerning Vernacular Versions Is Explained 🔒
Chapter XIV. Wherein the Adversaries Against Vernacular Versions Are Refuted 🔒
Chapter XV. Our Reasons for Vernacular Versions of the Scriptures 🔒
Chapter XVI. State of the Question Concerning Public Prayers and Sacred Rites in the Vulgar Tongue 🔒
Chapter XVII. The Arguments of the Papists for Service in a Foreign Tongue Are Confuted 🔒
Chapter XVIII. Our Arguments, Whereby We Prove That the Offices of the Church Should Be Performed in the Vernacular Language of Every People 🔒
Chapter I. Of the State 🔒
Chapter II. How Much Authority, with Respect to Scripture, Is Attributed by the Papists and by Us to the Church 🔒
Chapter III. Wherein the First Argument of Our Opponents Is Confuted 🔒
Chapter IV. Wherein Stapleton’s Second Argument Is Proposed and Confuted 🔒
Chapter V. Wherein the Third Argument of Our Opponents Is Examined and Set Aside 🔒
Chapter VI. Wherein the Fourth Argument of Our Opponents Is Answered 🔒
Chapter VII. Of the Fifth Adversaries 🔒
Chapter VIII. Of the Sixth Adversaries 🔒
Chapter IX. Of the Seventh Argument of Our Adversaries 🔒
Chapter X. Of the Two Remaining Arguments of Our Adversaries 🔒
Chapter XI. Our Arguments, Whereby We Prove That the Authority of the Scripture, in Respect of Us Does Not Depend upon the Judgment and Authority of the Church 🔒
Chapter XI. Our Arguments, Whereby We Prove That the Authority of the Scripture, in Respect of Us Does Not Depend upon the Judgment and Authority of the Church 🔒
Chapter XI. Our Arguments, Whereby We Prove That the Authority of the Scripture, in Respect of Us Does Not Depend upon the Judgment and Authority of the Church 🔒
Chapter I. Of the State of I 🔒
Chapter II. Why God Would Have Many Obscurities in the Scriptures 🔒
Chapter III. Wherein the Arguments of the Papists Are Obviated 🔒
Chapter IV. The Writers Attached by Bellarmine Are Defended 🔒
Chapter I. The State of I 🔒
Chapter II. Of Certain Preliminaries, Necessary for Understanding the State of the Question 🔒
Chapter III. The State of the Former Part of This Question Treated More at Large 🔒
Chapter IV. The Opponents Taken from the Old Testament Are Set Aside 🔒
Chapter V. An Answer Is Given to the Testimonies Taken from the New Testament 🔒
Chapter VI. Of the Third Adversaries 🔒
Chapter VII. Of the Jesuit’s Fourth Argument 🔒
Chapter VIII. Our Arguments Whereby We Prove That the Supreme Decision in Interpreting Scripture Belongs Not to the Church, but to the Scriptures Themselves and to the Holy Spirit 🔒
Chapter IX. The State of Concerning the Means of Finding the True Sense of Scripture 🔒
Chapter X. The General Opponents Against These Means Are Obviated 🔒
Chapter XI. The Particular Arguments of Our Adversaries Are Refuted 🔒
Chapter XII. The Arguments by Which Our Opponent Endeavours to Establish His Own Means Are Examined 🔒
Chapter XIII. That Scripture Is to Be Interpreted by Scripture 🔒
Chapter I. The Question Is Proposed 🔒
Chapter II. What the Papists Denote by the Term Tradition 🔒
Chapter III. How the Papists Classify Their Traditions 🔒
Chapter IV. The Rules Whereby the Papists Distinguish Genuine from Spurious Traditions 🔒
Chapter V. What Dogmas Are Defended by the Papists by the Authority of Traditions 🔒
Chapter VI. The State of the Question Is Laid Down 🔒
Chapter VII. The Adversaries, Whereby They Prove That the Scriptures Without Tradition Are Neither Necessary nor Sufficient 🔒
Chapter VIII. That the Scriptures Are Necessary 🔒
Chapter IX. The Opponents, Whereby They Prove That the Scriptures Are Not Sufficient Without Tradition 🔒
Chapter X. The Arguments Taken from Scripture, Whereby Bellarmine Proves the Existence of Some True Traditions, Are Answered 🔒
Chapter XI. Bellarmine’s Third Argument Is Obviated 🔒
Chapter XII. The Fourth Argument, Founded upon the Testimonies of the Fathers, Is Answered 🔒
Chapter XII. The Fourth Argument, Founded upon the Testimonies of the Fathers, Is Answered 🔒
Chapter XII. The Fourth Argument, Founded upon the Testimonies of the Fathers, Is Answered 🔒
Chapter XII. The Fourth Argument, Founded upon the Testimonies of the Fathers, Is Answered 🔒
Chapter XIII. Bellarmine’s Remaining Arguments Are Confuted 🔒
Chapter XIV. Such of Our Arguments Against Unwritten Traditions as Bellarmine Hath Answered 🔒
Chapter XV. Wherein Other Testimonies of Scripture Against Traditions, Not Noticed by Bellarmine, Are Explained 🔒
Chapter XVI. Unwritten Traditions Are Opposed Bt Reasons 🔒
Chapter XVII. Testimonies of the Fathers 🔒
Chapter XVII. Testimonies of the Fathers 🔒
Chapter XVII. Testimonies of the Fathers 🔒
Chapter XVII. Testimonies of the Fathers 🔒
Chapter XVII. Testimonies of the Fathers 🔒