Belgic Confession, Article 5
From whence do the Holy Scriptures derive their dignity and authority.
We receive all these books, and these only, as holy and canonical, for the regulation, foundation, and confirmation of our faith; believing without any doubt, all things contained in them, not so much because the church receives and approves them as such, but more especially because the Holy Ghost witnesseth in our hearts, that they are from God, whereof they carry the evidence in themselves. For the very blind are able to perceive that the things foretold in them are fulfilling.
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Belgic Confession. Reformed Dutch Church Constitution, G. W. Mentz & Son, Philadelphia, 1840. Reformed Dutch Church Constitution, G. W. Mentz & Son, Philadelphia, 1840
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