Excerpt from A Brief Reply to Thomas Bewley's Pamphlet: Entitled "an Inquiry Into the Right Place and Authority of Holy Scripture."In addressing himself, on page to the subject of inquiry, What is their right place, and how are we to ascertain where that right place is? The Author proceeds with this untenable and comfortless assertion It must be manifest to all that we have no means of discovering this, except from the Holy Scriptures themselves - forgetting the precious truth which Barclay has well stated, that it is by the inward testimony of the Spirit we do alone truly know them. Now if we cannot truly know them, but by the inward testimony of the Spirit, it is plain that we cannot rightly estimate them as to place and authority, but by the same good rule and guide.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.