...right of the individual conscience to interpret it. His conclusion is, in his own oft-quoted words: "The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants. ' ' He left also nine sermons, and a fragment on the apostolical institution of episcopacy. In 1638...

...attributed to Chillingworth, The Kelir1ion of Protestants, a Safe Way to Salvation, 163S. Hia words are : ' The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants. Propose me anything out of this book, I will subscribe it with hand and heart.' 2 History of Philosophy,...

...close this article, then, in the admirable language of Chillingworth, which has been so often quoted: "THE BIBLE, I SAY, THE BIBLE ONLY, is THE RELIGION OF PROTESTANTS." ART. V. — Polity of the Methodist Episcopal Church. METHODISM is a peculiarity. This peculiarity...

...Calvin, or Melanchthon, nor the Confession of Augsburg or Geneva, nor the Catechism of Heidelberg, nor the Articles of the Church of England; no, nor the harmony of all Protestant confessions, but that wherein they all agree and which they subscribe with a greater...

...convert to Romanism, and then as an Anglican, was able to sum up his argument in the famous words, " The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants." His book, The Religion of Protestants a safe Way of Sahation, may be said to mark the culmination of...

...right of the individual conscience to interpret it. His conclusion IB, in his own oft-quoted words: 'The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants.' He left also nine sermons, and a fragment on the apostolical institution of episcopacy. In 1638 he...

...German-speaking lands was shaped by a different tradition of biblical study. It was an Englishman who wrote: "the Bible, I say, the Bible only is the religion of Protestants," " but the claim was worked out with great intensity as a theological position in Switzerland, Holland,...

...Infallibility in the Church (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1980) 29. 1 15Commonitory, 2:2. VI. Conclusion 'The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants.' This, perhaps the most famous affirmation of sola Scriptura, in context means that for Protestants...

...the Socinians, and all others whatsoever, 1 do verily believe and embrace." Ihid., Preface, 28. 64. "The BIBLE, I say, the BIBLE only, is the Religion...they believe besides it, and the plain, irrefragable, induhitable Consequences of it, well may they hold it as a Matter of Opinion: But as matter of Faith...

...Seventeenth Century (Chapel Hill, NC, 1972), p. 75, chs. 1-4. emphasized the point in a famous aphorism: "The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants!" So, too, John Locke wrote in 1695 that he based The Reasonableness of Christianity upon "the sole reading...