Puritans on The Bible (1)

The Bible is the statute-book of God’s Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.

—Ezekiel Hopkins

The Scripture is the library of the Holy Ghost; it is a pandect of divine knowledge, an exact model and platform of religion. The Scripture contains in it the credenda, “the things which we are to believe’,’ and the agenda, “the things which we are to practice.”

—Thomas Watson

O ye saints, how you should love the Word, for by this you have been converted.... Tie it about your neck, write it upon your hand, lay it in your bosom. When you go let it lead you, when you sleep let it keep you, when you wake let it talk with you (Proverbs 6:21:22). You that are unconverted, read theWord with diligence; flock to where it is powerfully preached. Pray for the coming of the Spirit in the Word. Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees.

—Joseph Alleine

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

—William Gurnall

The godly man will read the Word by day, that men, seeing his good works, may glorify his Father who is in heaven; he will do it in the night, that he may not be seen of men; by day, to show that he is not one of those who dread the light; by night, to show that he is one who can shine in the shade; by day, for that is the time for working—work whilst it is day, by night, lest his Master should come as a thief, and find him idle.

—Sir Richard Baker

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

—John Flavel

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