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“Take Heed Unto Thyself, and Unto the Doctrine”: Public Error, Public Repentance, and the Judgment of Christ
Church officers will answer to Christ for what they teach, what they refuse to correct, and what they knowingly leave undefended; public error therefore requires proportionate public repentance.
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Not an Intramural Debate: The Textual Question Concerns What God Has Spoken
The textual question cannot be confined to an academic side room. It asks which words constitute the inspired, preserved, authentic rule by which every doctrine, translation, sermon, and controversy must be judged.
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Preservation Is an Act of God’s Special Providence toward His Church
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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A Distinction Must Be Maintained among the Text, Its Witnesses, and Its Editions
The inspired text, the manuscripts that witness it, and the editions that present it must be distinguished without separating the text from its providentially preserved witnesses.
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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
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Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak: Historical Meaning in Doctrinal Debate
The Safeguard 19 method-and-case series for establishing what older writers and confessions meant before comparing, developing, or judging their claims.
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The Stream Cannot Correct the Fountain
A Greek translation may preserve ancient evidence and serve the Church as a valuable witness. It cannot become the judge of the inspired Hebrew text from which its authority is derived.
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The Text in Question: Calamy''s First Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Edmund Calamy frames the inquiry into 1 John 5:7, distinguishes the doctrine of the Trinity from the status of one clause, and states his initial concessions.
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“He That Answereth a Matter Before He Heareth It”: Rash Speech and Knowing Equivocation Among Elders
The Ninth Commandment requires elders to hear a textual position from its primary sources, represent it truthfully, and refuse the equivocation that preserves confessional words while replacing their meaning.
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Manuscripts, Versions, and the Fathers: Calamy''s Second Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Calamy answers the case from Greek manuscripts, ancient versions, and patristic silence, then weighs the Latin and African witnesses available to him.
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William Whitaker’s Rule for Every Translation
Whitaker’s answer to Vulgate supremacy is a universal rule: every version is received when it agrees with the inspired originals and corrected when it does not. He expressly applies that principle to the Greek translation of the Seventy.
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“Undue Silence in a Just Cause”: When “Intramural” Becomes an Excuse
Calling the textual controversy intramural does not make it nonfoundational, and church polity does not excuse elders from publicly answering public error about the identity and preservation of Scripture.
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