Article VI, Of the sufficiency of the Holy Scripture for Salvation, immediately establishes Holy Scripture as the final authority in matters of salvation. The article sets forth:
Holy Scripture contained all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation… .
Earlier Cranmer wrote in the preface to the Great Bible of 1540, the Holy Scriptures were “the fat pastures of the soul,” and the “most holy relic that remain upon the earth.” The 1553 Ordinal, as a particular ceremony of the church, further captures this aspect of the doctrine of Scripture articulated by The Articles:
The Bishoppe: Be you perswaded that the holy Scriptures contein sufficiently al doctrine required of necessitie for eternal salvacion, throughe faith in Jesu Christe? And are you determined with the saied scriptures, to enstructe the people committed to your charge, and to teache nothyng, as required of necessitie, to eternal salvacion, but that you shalbe perswaded may be concluded, and proved by the scripture?
Aunswere: I am so perswaded, and have so determyned by Gods grace.
How does this change the way we read the Holy Scriptures?
Gavin
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