...implied admission that until now we have had the wrong one. Those who have hitherto fondly believed that the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants, will at least have their eyes opened to the fact that something more than the Bible has been placed...

...thesis. Chillingworth's great service was to oppose to the idea of the Church and its authority the idea that 'the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants.' And this religion is one that authority cannot interpret, only ' right reason,' ie, it must be interpreted...

...implied admission that until now we have had the wrong one. Those who have hitherto fondly believed that the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants, will at least have their eyes opened to the fact that something more than the Bible has been placed...

...There are yet, unfortunately, noisy ones in Christendom, who wander hither and thither, proclaiming that " The Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants." And there are others less noisy, but more crafty and resolute — with vast spiritual pretensions —...

...Socinus against the pure humanism of Francis David in Eastern Hungary, or Chillingworth's assertion that " the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants." The point of difference is not that Protestantism has a different standard of ultimate appeal. But...

...the Bible follows the yoke of the Church. The phrases which we have heard repeated with enthusiasm, that ' the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants,' that ' Scripture is the rule of faith and practice,' are indeed full of historical interest, but for...

...thesis. Chillingworth's great service was to oppose to the idea of the Church and its authority the idea that " the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants." And this religion is one that authority cannot interpret, only " right reason," ie, it must be interpreted...

...present occasion, as she mopped her forehead with her handkerchief, with reminding her anxious daughter that " the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants ! " and that she must put her best leg foremost if she did not want to find Mrs. Egerton's beautiful...

...principle, which adopts as its motto the saying, — with which we, of course, agree in a measure, — that "the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants." " The Bible, and the Bible only," is, in a very true sense, the religion of all Churchmen ; and moreover,...

...Scripture but of Scripture only [sufficientia Scripturae] . He anticipated the formula of Chillingworth that "the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants." s He declined to be refuted by any patristic comments. " I ask for Scripture," he said, " and Eck offers...