For those who are aware (or desire to learn) of the Tractarian Controversy (also known as the Oxford Movement) within the Church of England in the middle of the 19th century. I would recommend the following work of William Goode titled The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice, Three volumes published in 1853.

The first edition of this work was published in 1842 in two volumes, but the 1853 edition (the 2nd edition) is an expanded edition, and was written after Newman's conversion to Rome in 1845. In this work, Goode defends the position that the Scriptures are the only divine rule extant for the church today against the Romanizing notions of the tractarians, in particular, Newman, Pusey, & Keble. It can be downloaded in .pdf format. This is a very significant work. I recommend it to all who are interested in the topic of sola Scriptura.

http://www.archive.org/details/thedi...eoff01gooduoft
http://www.archive.org/details/thedi...eoff02gooduoft
http://www.archive.org/details/thedi...eoff03gooduoft

DTK

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Sola Scriptura est norma normans non normata
David T. King, pastor
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Elkton, Maryland
Augustine (354-430): Therefore what He [i.e., Christ] has deigned to speak to us, we ought to believe that He meant us to understand. But if we do not understand He, being asked, gives understanding, who gave His Word unasked. NPNF1: Vol. VII, Tractates on John, Tractate XXII, §1.

Wow, thanks Pastor King! This is something valuable indeed...saving it to hard drive is a good idea too, since you never know how long something is going to stay on archive.org. It'll be interesting to see what he added since the Newman controversy - the "development" argument is all too often used as a convenient escape hatch once it becomes clear that church history was not distinctly Roman Catholic.

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Vaughn Shideler
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
Toronto, ON, Canada

It also comes highly recommended by William Cunningham, who calls it a "very learned and valuable work," Historical Theology, 1:81. Thankyou for the links.

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Yours sincerely,


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