Quotes on the Bible

Quotes on the Bible by Keach, Ridgley, and Turner. These men had no problem understanding that the promises in places such as Matthew 5:18, Matthew 24:35, and 1 Peter 1:24-25 apply to the Bible — since the same God who is the author of it has by his special providence preserved it!

Quotes on the Bible, quotes on the Holy Word;
The words of all the prophets, and the sayings of our Lord.
Of all the quotes you find, they’d better back the Word—
Read these quotes on the Bible that truth undergird.

Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) Baptist

“Since therefore the Bible has thus wonderfully surmounted all difficulties and oppositions, for so many generations, and in so many dangers, and against so many endeavours to root out of the world, we may, (according to that maxim in philosophy, Eadem est causa procreans et conservans; the procreating and conserving cause of things, is one and the same) conclude, that the same God is the Author of it, who hath thus by his special providence preserved it, and faithfully promised, and cannot lie, that heaven and earth shall pass away, but one iota or tittle of his word shall not pass away. Tropologia: a Key to Open Scripture Metaphors, Benjamin Keach, Ireland: Bonmahon Industrial Printing School, 1858, xvi-xvii.

“The word of God is durable. All the endeavours of wicked men from time to time have been to destroy the word; it hath been in many fires, as I may say, and yet it remains and abides the same. ‘Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away,” Matt. v. 18.  ‘All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, and the flower thereof fadeth away. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever: and this is the word which by the Gospel is preached to you,’ 1 Pet i. 24, 25.” Tropologia: a Key to Open Scripture Metaphors, Benjamin Keach, Ireland: Bonmahon Industrial Printing School, 1858, p. 573.

Thomas Ridgley (ca. 1667-1734) Independent

“Having considered the arguments brought to prove that some books of scripture are lost, we shall now prove, on the other hand, that we have the canon thereof compleat and entire. Some think this is sufficiently evident from what our Saviour says, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot, or tittle shall not pass from the law, Mat. v. 18 and it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than for one tittle of the law to fail, Luke xvi. 17. If God will take care of every jot and tittle of scripture, will he not take care that no whole book, designed to be a part of the rule of faith, should be entirely lost? It is objected, indeed to this, that our Saviour hereby intends principally the doctrines or precepts contained in the law; but if the subject matter thereof shall not be lost, surely the scripture that contains it shall be preserved entire.

“But this will more evidently appear, if we consider that the books of the Old Testament were compleat in our Saviour’s time; for it is said, That beginning at Moses, and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself, Luke xxiv. 27, and this may also be proved from what the apostle says, Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, Rom. xv. 4; now it is impossible that they should be written for our learning if they are lost.

“To this may be added, that the goodness of God, and the care of his providence, with respect to this church, farther evinces this truth; for if he gave them ground to conclude that he would be with them always, even to the end of the world, Matth. xxviii. 20, surely this argues, that he would preserve the rule he had given them to walk by, from all the injuries of time, so that it should not be lost to the end of the world.” A Body of Divinity, Volume 1, Thomas Ridgley (1667-1734), James P. Wilson, editor. Philadelphia, PA: William W. Woodward, 1814, 65-66.

Daniel Turner (1710–1798) Baptist

“...the spirit of free inquiry...will never rest till it has brought the professors of Christianity to acquiesce in the only external rule, or infallible standard of religious verity, the Bible, understood in its native simplicity and latitude of expression, unsophisticated by the super-orthodoxy of our high-flying theologians on the one hand, and the capricious refinements of our mere critics and philosophers on the other.” Free Thoughts on the Spirit of Free Inquiry in Religion, Daniel Turner, Henley: G. Norton, 1793, p. 5.