"In nature, in the Scriptures, and in the
Gospel of Christ God reveals Himself, not mere evidences of His
existence, not mere doctrines concerning Himself, not a mere history of
His dealings with men, but HIMSELF." The
King James Version Defended, p 4
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"Every believer is a priest unto God
through Christ." The King James
Version Defended, p 26
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"Christ's kingdom is, in the first place,
a kingdom of power." The
King James Version Defended, p 27
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"Our faith in Him and in Jesus Christ His
Son is not the product of our sinful, human minds and will but the
gracious gift of His Holy Spirit." The
King James Version Defended, p 38
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"For in the working out of their theory
Westcott and Hort followed an essentially naturalistic method. Indeed,
they prided themselves on treating the text of the New Testament as they
would that of any other book, making little or nothing of inspiration
and providence. 'For ourselves,' Hort wrote, ' we dare not introduce
considerations which could not reasonably be applied to other ancient
texts, supposing them to have documentary attestation of equal amount,
variety, and antiquity.'" The King
James Version Defended, p 66
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"In dealing with the Gospel writers the
fundamental emphasis must be on the inspiration of the Holy Spirit under
which they wrote." The King James
Version Defended, p 73
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"According to the Form-critics, Paul was
not teaching the Christian community anything, but merely rehearsing to
the community what he had learned from it. But who were these unknown
hymn makers of the Christian community who were able to mold the
thinking of the Apostle Paul? How could these profound theological
geniuses have remained anonymous?" The
King James Version Defended, p 82
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"Therefore when God saves sinners, He
regenerates them through the power of the Holy Spirit. He raises them up
out of their death in sin and gives them the gift of faith." The
King James Version Defended, p 87
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"Hence in the writing of the Scriptures
the Holy Spirit did not have to struggle, as modernists insist, with the
limitations of human language. The languages in which the writing was
done were perfectly adapted to the expression of His divine
thoughts." The
King James Version Defended, p 90
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"It would have been passing strange if
God had guided His people in regard to the New Testament canon [i.e, the
Byzantine canon] but had withheld from them His divine assistance in the
matter of the New Testament text." The
King James Version Defended, p 106
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"Dr. Warfield's treatment of the New
Testament text illustrates this cleavage in his thinking. In the realm
of dogmatics he agreed with the Westminster Confession that the New
Testament text had been "kept pure in all ages" by God's
singular care and providence, but in the realm of New Testament textual
criticism he agreed with Westcott and Hort in ignoring God's providence
and even went so far as to assert that the same methods were to be
applied to the text of the New Testament that would be applied to the
text of a morning newspaper... [Warfield] would have us believe that
during the manuscript period orthodox Christians corrupted the New
Testament text, that the text used by the Protestant Reformers [who drew
up the Westminster Confession] was the worst of all, and the true text
was not restored until the 19th century, when Tregelles brought it forth
out of the Pope's library, when Tischendorf rescued it from a waste
basket on Mt. Sinai, and when Westcott and Hort were providentially
guided to construct a theory of it which ignores God's special
providence and treats the text of the New Testament like the text of any
other ancient book." The
King James Version Defended, p 110-111
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