Letters on the Eternal Sonship of Christ Author:Samuel Miller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER III. Testimony of Scripture. iiKVKHKVl) AMI JIEAK llBOTIIF.lt, The first question which arises with respect to the subject of this correspondence... more », is, What saith the Scripture ? It is first in importance, as well as first in order. In fact, all others are comparatively trivial; for I still adhere to the opinion expressed in my " Letters on Unitarianism," that "that which is not found in Scripture, however extensively and unanimously it may have been received by those who bear the Christian name, must be rejected, as forming no part of the precious system which God has revealed to man for his salvation." I hope I am truly thankful that neither the Fathers, nor Tradition, nor the Church, are recognized by us as our guide in faith or practice. To the law and to the testimany, then. I cheerfully join issue with you in appealing to this infallible rule; and sincerely rejoice that I am called to correspond with a Brother whom I can meet in this field with affection and confidence as on common ground. In entering on this field of inquiry I need not remark to you, that it is a wide, one, and that a volume larger than that to which I propose to confine myself in the whole correspondence, would be too small for the full discussion of this branch of the subject. This being obviously the case, I shall allow myself to select and urge only what appear to me the principal topicks of testimony and argument. For, on the one hand, if these should not be thought conclusive, it is not likely that any addition to their number would be more favourably regarded; and, on the other, if they should be deemed sufficient, it will be unnecessary further to multiply particulars. I propose, in the first place, to adduce the leading testimony of Scripture in favour of the eternal Sonship of...« less