Lively Oracles Given to Us

Name: Lively Oracles Given to Us
Author: Richard Allestree

Richard Allestree (1621/22–1681) was an English Royalist churchman and provost of Eton College. He fought for Charles I while an Oxford student, served as a royal chaplain and agent during the king's exile, and after the Restoration became canon of Christ Church and regius professor of divinity. He is traditionally credited with The Whole Duty of Man and wrote The Government of the Tongue and The Art of Contentment.

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First published: 1678
Category: Theology
Length: 55k words · about 4 hours
Chapters: 14

About this book

A treatise by Richard Allestree on the believer's right to keep and use the Scriptures, published in 1678. Against the claim that ordinary Christians should be kept from reading the Bible for themselves, Allestree argues that the lively oracles of God are given to all His people. A window into seventeenth-century English devotion and its love of the open Bible.

Preface
Section I. The Several Methods of Gods Communicating the Knowledge of Himself.
Section II. The Divine Original, Endearments and Authority of the Holy Scripture. · Part 1
Section II. The Divine Original, Endearments and Authority of the Holy Scripture. · Part 2 🔒
Section II. The Divine Original, Endearments and Authority of the Holy Scripture. · Part 3 🔒
Section III. The Subject Matter Treated of in the Holy Scripture, Is Excellent, as Is Also Its End and Design. · Part 1 🔒
Section III. The Subject Matter Treated of in the Holy Scripture, Is Excellent, as Is Also Its End and Design. · Part 2 🔒
Section III. The Subject Matter Treated of in the Holy Scripture, Is Excellent, as Is Also Its End and Design. · Part 3 🔒
Sect. IV. The Custody of the Holy Scripture is a privilege and right of the Christian Church, and every member of it; which cannot without impiety to God, and injustice unto it and them, be taken away or impeach’d 🔒
Sect. V. The Scripture has great propriety and fitness towards the attainment of its excellent end. 🔒
Sect. VI. The suffrage of the primitive Christian Church, concerning the propriety and fitness which the Scripture has towards the attainment of its excellent end. 🔒
Sect. VII. Historical reflexions upon the Events which have happen’d in the Church since the with-drawing of the Holy Scripture. 🔒
Sect. VIII. Necessary cautions to be us’d in the reading of the holy Scriptures. 🔒
The Contents. 🔒