A53737:178
A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux
A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux wherein the principles of the Roman church, as to moderation, unity and truth are examined and sundry important controversies concerning the rule of faith, papal supremacy, the mass, images, &c. discussed / by John Owen.
London: printed for Ph. Stephens, 1664
A Vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat Lux. › Chapter 7
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Protestants lay down this as the [Greek or Hebrew], as the very beginning and first Principle of their confidence and Confession, that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, as the Holy Ghost teacheth them, 2 Tim. 3. 16. That is, that the Books of the Old and New Testament were all of them written by the immediate guidance, direction, and inspiration of God; the hand of the Lord, as David speaks, 1 Chron. 28. 19. being upon the Penmen thereof in writing; and his Spirit, as Peter informs us, speaking in them, 1 P•t. 1. 11. So that whatever is contained and delivered in them, is given out from God, and is received on his Authority. This Principle I suppose you grant to be true; do you not? if you will deny it say so, and we will proceed no farther, until we have proved it. I know you have various ⟨p. 133⟩ways laboured to undermine the [Greek or Hebrew] of the Holy Scriptures; many Queries you put unto men, How they can know it to be from God, to be true, from Heaven, and not of men; many scruples you endeavour to possess them with, against its Authority; it is not my present business to remove them: It is sufficient unto me, 1. That you your selves who differ from us in other things, and with whom our contest about the best way of coming to settlement in the Truth alone, is, do acknowledge this Principle were proceed upon to be true. And 2. That ye cannot oppose it without setting your selves to dig up the very foundations of Christian Religion, and to open a way to let in an inundation of Atheism on the world. So our first step is fixed on the grand fundamental Principle of all the Religion and acceptable worship of God that is in the world.
1. Protestants lay down this as the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as the very beginning and first Principle of their confidence and Confession, that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, as the Holy Ghost teacheth them, 2 Tim. 3. 16. That is, that the Books of the Old and New Testament were all of them written by the immediate guidance, direction, and inspiration of God; the hand of the Lord, as David speaks,