Chapter One: The Holy Scriptures

Section

1.5

: Footnotes and Supportive Scripture

Inward Work of the Holy Spirt

We may be moved and induced [= persuaded] by the testimony of the people of God to gain a high and reverent estimation of the Holy Scriptures. We may be similarly affected by the nature of the Scriptures—the heavenliness of the contents, the efficacy [= power] of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God, the full disclosure it makes of the only way of man’s salvation, together with many other incomparable excellencies and entire perfections. By all the evidence, the Scripture more than proves itself to be the word of God. Yet, notwithstanding this, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth of Scripture and it's divine authority, is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the word in our hearts.

John 8:31
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples"
1 Cor 2:10-16
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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