Excerpt from Tracts of the American Tract Society, Vol. 8: General Series Now, if the man of God, or Christian minister, who is to instruct others, and to declare unto them the whole counsel of God, so far as is necessary for their attainment of salvation, be perfectly instructed for the discharge of his high and responsible office from the Scriptures, these must necessarily contain all saving truth, all that is needful to be known by him, and by every private Christian, in order to salvation. Compare Psalm 19: 7, 8; Isaiah 2 Peter, - 21; John 20: 31. Conformably to these declarations, all Protestant churches admit of no other rule of faith and practice than the Scripture, which containeth all things necessary to salvation. 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.