“QUESTION 5 What is the main scope and end of Scripture?
Answer. To chalk out a way to salvation. It makes a clear discovery of Christ.
‘These things are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, and that believing ye might have life through his name’ (John 20:31).
The design of the Word is to be an exam whereby our grace is to be tried.
It is a seamark to show us what rocks we are to avoid.
The Word is to subdue and quicken our affections.
It is to be our directory and consolatory.
It is to waft us over to the land of promise.”
–Thomas Watson, A Body of Practical Divinity, in The Works of Thomas Watson, Volume 2, Ed. J. Stephen Yuille and Jordan Stone (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2026), 2: 45.
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