| Edward F. Hills |
| "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy 2:5 |
"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
"Every believer is a priest unto God through Christ." The
King James Version Defended, p 26
"Christ's kingdom is, in the first place, a kingdom of
power." The King James Version Defended, p 27
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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