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A61275	The perfection of Scripture stated, and its sufficiency argued in a sermon preached at the publick commencement at Cambridge, Sunday July iv, 1697 / by George Stanhope ...	Stanhope, George, 1660-1728.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5226; ESTC R16475	18,590	36

THE Perfection of Scripture STATED And Its SUFFICIENCY ARGUED IN A SERMON PREACHED at the Publick Commencement AT CAMBRIDGE SUNDAY July iv 1697. By GEORGE STANHOPE D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty and late Fellow of King's College Publish'd at the Desire of the Reverend the Vice-Chancellour the Divinity-Professors and Other Heads of Colleges LONDON Printed for R. Sare at Gray's-Inn-Gate in Holborn and Matt. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street 1697. II. TIMOTH iii 16 17. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness That the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works THE Apostle having had occasion in the fifteenth Verse to mention the Holy Scriptures under that general Character of being able to make Timothy wise unto Salvation thought fit to enlarge somewhat more upon so glorious a Subject and to give this particular and very magnificent Commendation of them which is contained in the Words now read to you For the better understanding whereof and setting the Argument comprehended under them in its true Light permit me briefly to premise a few Observations with regard to the Expressions themselves I. The First of these relates to the Subject-Matter of the Assertion All Scripture where I need not tell you That St. Paul by Scripture meant those Writings which were generally received and reverenced in the Church of God as authentick Significations of his good Pleasure Such were the Books of the Old Testament acknowledged to come from Heaven by the Mouth and Ministry of the Prophets and these seem to have been the Scriptures which Timothy is said to have known from a child v. 15. And such likewise were those of the New Testament then extant which if we attend to the * Ann. Chr. LXVII Neron XIII vide Pearson Cestr in Annal Paulin. Time of sending this Epistle many indeed most except the Writings of St. John seem to have been And therefore † So Scultetus in locum Chemnitius Exam. Conc Trident. P. I. cap. 1. Gerhard Loc. Commun de Sacr. Script cap. XVIII p. 147. Learned Persons have taken These into the account and thought St. Paul very properly to intimate that They also were equally worthy of Timothy's study of the same mighty Benefit and Use and such as carried the same stamp of a Divine Authority with those of the Old Testament to which Men paid so profound and entire Respect But then ‖ Nomen Graecum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 interdum Universalitatem significat interdum Integritatem Ita hic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 idem est quod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 adeóque rectè vertitur Tota Scriptura Scultet Qui nostram Interpretationem respuunt obtendunt non dici 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sed nec si sequaris Interpretationem nostram opus crit Articulo Vox enim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nonnunquam etiam sine Articulo sine Adjectivo sumitur Antonomasticè ut Rom. 1.2 2 Pet. 1.20 Jac. Cappell Si 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sumas vocem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vocem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vertas omnis in casses indues te ex quibus vix te possis expedire Quasi vel minimus Scripturae Sacrae versus habeat omnes hos usus quos hic describit Apostolus Jac. Cappell Vide quae Scultetus ad locum Gerhard è Bellarmino depromptis respondent Loc. Comm. Part. I. Cap. 18. de Sacr. Script p. 146 147. All Scripture is to be understood as the Schools speak not in a Distributive but a Collective Sense that is We must interpret it of the whole Body of Scripture taken together and in the gross and not of each particular Passage to be met with there The first Clause of the Text indeed is true even in this more rigid Construction and an equal necessity of the Writers being led into all Truth and secured from all Errour seems to lie upon every part of a Book intended for the Guide of Souls But most assuredly it is neither True nor Necessary nor so much as Possible that each particular Passage should be of that general Profit and Perfection and serve the several Purposes specified in my Text. And This I take to be so plain and obvious that nothing could excuse the mention of it had not some Writers of great and very boasted Name been content to stoop to so poor a shift as That of alledging against the Protestant Opinion concerning the Perfection of Scripture That this Text to Timothy either proves nothing at all in favour of it or it proves a great deal too much as making every Book and every Period a perfect Rule of Faith and Life by saying that All Scripture is thus inspired and thus exceeding profitable To these Scriptures thus considered our Apostle gives two Noble Commendations First That of their Divine Original All Scripture is given by inspiration of God Secondly That of their general Usefulness And This again is farther illustrated by instancing First in the several Particulars to which that Usefulness extends The Scripture is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness Secondly By declaring the degree of this Usefulness and the Efficacy of the Scriptures in those respects for that by their means the man of God is capable of becoming perfect and throughly furnished unto all good works By the Man of God the matter is not great whether we understand with * Cajetan Chemnitius Hemingius Vatablus Castalio some Interpreters Every good Christian whose Heart and Life is devoted to the Service and Obedience of God Or whether with † Scultetus Grotius Gerhard c. Others the Bishops and Pastors of the Church such as Timothy himself was and who being dedicated and retaining to God in a more peculiar manner have a Title to this Character distinct from the rest of Mankind For in both senses the Argument comes all to One. Since what the Pastors are bound to teach the same their Flocks are bound to know and believe and do So that this is but One thing considered under different respects And therefore what is sufficient or defective for a Rule to Men in One of these Capacities must consequently be in proportion so to Men in the Other Once more That the Scripture is a sufficient Supply for all the Necessities of this kind the Apostle declares by saying That the man of God may be perfected by it and throughly furnished to every good work For That cannot be perfect which wants any of its substantial Parts nor is He throughly furnished who is still under a necessity of seeking Supplies elsewhere The Text in all this Latitude ministers much more Matter of Discourse than either the Time or Your Patience can allow to be handled distinctly And therefore omitting wholly that first Part which concerns the Divine Original of Scripture as less suitable and