It is my firm conviction that an increase in the knowledge of God and
his will is an impossibility until the supremacy of scripture is
recognized. As one tradition after another is found to be in opposition
to it, scripture is allowed to judge, and those traditions are
relegated to the ecclesiastical wastebasket. I venture to say that any
God-fearing priest who would read nothing but the Bible daily for one
year, and read that thoughtfully, prayerfully, and penitently,
determined to refuse everything he had learned not in agreement with
it, would at the end of the twelve months have forever cast aside so
many traditionary fables and would have found such great enlightenment
and blessing, that he would be encouraged to continue to make the holy
scriptures his one chief study. Thus he would be enabled to walk in
peace and godliness in the path of the just which shines brighter unto
the perfect day. And so full would be the divine instruction received
that he would never miss the human traditions and ecclesiastical dogmas
thus discarded, but would find every spiritual need met in the great
storehouse of heavenly food found in the inerrant and God-breathed
depository of light and truth, the once neglected Bible.
-- H.A. Ironside, from the booklet "Letters to a Roman Catholic Priest," Loizeaux Brothers, pg. 39
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