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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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152 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.Christian faith by word <strong>of</strong> mouth. Moreover, itwas left to the Church to gather them together,and make them into one book, which thenceforwardshould be the <strong>Book</strong>; it was left to the Churchto determine which were to be received as inspiredwritings, and in accordance with the teaching alreadydiffused in her, and which were not. Andthis collection <strong>of</strong> the several writings from the particularChurches to which they were addressed intoone mass would seem not to have taat least three ^or four generations after the wholeorder and institutions <strong>of</strong> the Church had beenestablished by oral teaching, which filled as witha flood the whole Christian people. <strong>The</strong>n, finally,the authority <strong>of</strong> the Church alone established thecanon <strong>of</strong> Scripture, and separated it <strong>of</strong>f from allother writings.Now as the planting <strong>of</strong> the Church by oralteaching was a direction <strong>of</strong> the Holy Spirit, fromwhom the whole work <strong>of</strong> mission proceeded, so allthese particulars concerning the degree in whichwriting was to be employed, and the manner inwhich that writing was to be attested, and thepersons to whom it was to be addressed, were adirection <strong>of</strong> the same Spirit. That a spiritualkingdom could not have been established save byoral teaching Christians may infer with certainty,because, in fact, that method was pursued. Thata portion <strong>of</strong> the great Tradition should be committedto writing they may for the same reason

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