The lively oracles given to us. Or the Christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture. By the author of the Whole duty of man, &c.

Title

The lively oracles given to us. Or the Christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture. By the author of the Whole duty of man, &c.

Author

Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.

Publication

[Oxford] :: At the Theater in Oxford, 1678. And are to be sold by William Leak at the Crown in Fleet-street, Lond[on],

[1678]

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Subject terms

Bible -- Use -- Early works to 1800.

Bible -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.

Christian life -- Early works to 1800.

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"The lively oracles given to us. Or the Christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture. By the author of the Whole duty of man, &c." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75017.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• imprimatur
• THE PREFACE.
• THE LIVELY ORACLES GIVEN TO US, Or the Christians Birth-right and Duty in the custody and use of the HOLY SCRIPTURE.
  • SECT. I. The several Methods of Gods communicating the knowledg of himself.
  • SECT. II. The divine Original, Endearments, and Authority of the Holy Scripture.
  • SECT. III. The subject matter treated of in the Holy Scripture is excellent, as is also its end and design.
  • SECT. IV. The Custody of the holy Scripture is a privi∣lege and right of the Christian Church, and every member of it; which cannot without impiety to God, and injustice unto it and them, be taken away or empeacht.
  • SECT. V. The Scripture has great propriety and fit∣ness toward the attainment of its excellent end.
  • SECT. VI. The suffrage of the primitive Christian Church, concerning the propriety and fit∣ness which the Scripture hat towards the attainment of its excellent end.
  • SECT. VII. Historical reflexions upon the events which have happen'd in the Church since the with-drawing of the holy Scripture.
  • SECT. VIII. Necessary cautions to be us'd in the reading of the holy Scriptures.
• THE CONTENTS.