Image: William Whitaker (1547-1595)
As part of preparation to teach on the topic “Canon and
Reformation” at Redeeming Grace BC in Matthews, Virginia this weekend, I’ve been
reading over the opening to William Whitaker’s A Disputation on Holy Scriptures (Soli Deo Gloria reprint, original
1588, English translation, 1849). In the Preface, Whitaker notes his choice of
weapon in his polemics:
Our arms shall be the sacred scriptures,
that sword and shield of the word, that tower of David, upon which a thousand
bucklers hang, and all the armour of the mighty, the sling and the pebbles of
the brook wherewith David stretched upon the ground that gigantic and haughty
Philistine. Human reasonings and testimonies, if one use them too much or out of place, are
like the armour of Saul, which was so far from helping David that it rather
unfitted him for the conflict (p. 19).
JTR
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