Excerpt from The Westminster Doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture: With a Prepatory Note on the Free Church College Committee's Report, and With Remarks on Marcus Dods's Recent Sermon I. Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence, do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power Of God, as to leave men inexcusable yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and of His will which is necessary unto salvation: therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times and in diverse manners, to reveal Himself, and to declare that His will unto His Church; and afterwards, for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the Church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing, which maketh Holy Scripture to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now ceased. II. Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are these [naming them], - all which are given by inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life. Westminster Confession, chap. I. Sections i. And ii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.