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Speaking of Martin Lloyd-Jones:  "Basically it lay in his conviction that ministers are called to be preachers, not writers.  He did not view the readiness of contemporary Christianity to allow the pulpit to be overshadowed by other means of communication as a wise adjustment to modern conditions but as a loss of faith in the means to which God has attached the special promise of His power."

Iain Murray

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Spurgeon advocated a pure Biblicism for theological construction.  He loved the historic confessions and the pious and helpful writings of the Reformers and Puritans as well as selected numbers from the early Fathers and even some medieval writers…but all of these edified only to the degree that they opened to the mind that which already abided in scriptural revelation.  Theology is not new, nor has it been the product of tradition or development…"the epistles are older than the thirty-nine articles."…We may gain assistance through others that interpret Scripture doctrines, but no addition to the doctrines themselves… Christian doctrine, to the degree that God wants us to know, has mature development in Scripture.  Neither individual theologian nor church corporate may add to, diminish, amend, or dilute by false synthesis any assertion of the biblical text.  We may find a way to give clear teaching on a variety of subjects and seek to show their mature biblical development and relations, and we may surely benefit from the way Christians through the ages have formulated these biblical truths and their practical applications; any effort, however to go beyond the biblical text and its own internal development perverts the truth.

 

From:  Living By Revealed Truth: The Life and Pastoral Theology of Charles Haddon Spurgeon - By Thomas

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Think of reading like you think of eating.  In other words, pay attention to your diet.  For the Christian, the highest reading priority is the Word of God.  Our spiritual maturity will never exceed our knowledge of the Bible.

 

Albert Mohler

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I can pretty clearly distinguish, between skill and malice, and I set no high value on a malice so unskillful.  To burn books is so easy a matter that even children can do it; much more, then, the Holly Father and his doctors.  It would be well for them to show greater ability than that which is required to burn books......Besides, let them destroy my works!  I desire nothing better; for all my wish has been to lead souls to the Bible, so that they might afterwards neglect my writings....If we had a knowledge of Scripture what need would there be of any books of mine?....

 

Martin Luther

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The writings of all the holy fathers should be read only for a time, in order that through them we may be led to the Holy Scriptures.  As it is, however, we read them only to be absorbed in them and never come to the Scriptures. We are like men who study the signposts and never travel the road. The dear fathers wished by their writing, to lead us to the Scriptures, but we so use them as to be led away from the Scriptures, though the Scriptures alone are our vineyard in which we ought to work and toil.

Martin Luther