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Article 05

THE AUTHORITY OF HOLY SCRIPTURE

We receive (1) all these books, and these only, as holy and canonical, for the regulation, foundation, and confirmation of our faith. (2) We believe without any doubt all things contained in them, not so much because the church receives and approves them as such, but especially because the Holy Spirit witnesses in our hearts that they are from God, (3) and also because they contain the evidence of this in themselves; for even the blind are able to perceive that the things foretold in them are being fulfilled. (4)

1. 1 Thess 2:13.

2. 2 Tim 3:16,17.

3. 1 Cor 12:3; 1 Jn 4:6;5:7.

4. Deut 18:21,22; 1 Kings 22:28; Jer 28:9; Ezek 33:33.