A90280:111
Of the divine original, authority, self-evidencing light, and power of the Scriptures. With an…Of the divine originall, authority, self-evidencing light, and povver of the Scriptures. With an…
Of the divine original, authority, self-evidencing light, and power of the Scriptures. With an answer to that enquiry, how we know the Scriptures to be the Word of God. Also a vindication of the purity and integrity of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Old and New Testament; in some considerations on the prolegomena, & appendix to the late Biblia polyglotta. Whereunto are subjoined some exercitations about the nature and perfection of the Scripture, the right of interpretation, internal Light, revelation, &c. / By John Owen: D.D.Of the divine originall, authority, self-evidencing light, and povver of the Scriptures. With an answer to that enquiry, how we know the Scriptures to be the Word of God. Also a vindication of the purity and integrity of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Old and New Testament; in some considerations on the prolegomena, & appendix to the late Biblia polyglotta. Whereunto are subjoyned some exercitations about the nature and perfection of the Scripture, the right of interpretation, internall Light, revelation, &c. / By Iohn Owen: D.D.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall for Tho, 1659
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Sect. 13. Again in that dispute, that was between Abraham and the Rich man, Luk. 16. 31. about the best and most effectual means of bringing men to Repentance: The Rich man in Hell, speaking his own conception, fixes upon Miracles; if one rise from the dead, and preach, the work will be done: Abraham is otherwise minded, that is, Christ was so, the Author of that parable: He bids them attend to ⟨p. 64⟩Moses and the Prophets, the Written Word, as that which all faith and Repentance was immediately to be grounded on. The enquiry being, how men might be best assured, that any message is from God, did not the Word manifest its self to be from him, this direction had not been equal.
Sect. 13. Againe in that dispute, that was between Abraham and the Rich man, Luk. 16. 31. about the best and most effectuall meanes of bringing men to Repentance: The Rich man in Hell, speaking his owne conception, fixes upon Miracles; if one rise from the dead, and preach, the worke will be done: Abraham is otherwise minded, that is, Christ was so, the Author of that parable: He bids them attend to ⟨p. 64⟩Moses and the Prophets, the Written VVord, as that which all faith and Repentance was immediately to be grounded on. The enquiry being, how men might be best assured, that any message is from God, did not the Word manifest its selfe to be from him, this direction had not been equall.
Sect. 14. The Ground of the Request for the rising of one from the dead, is laid in the common Apprehension of men not knowing the power of God in the Scriptures; who think, that if an evident miracle were wrought, all pretences and pleas of Unbelief would be excluded; who doth not think so? Our Saviour discovers that mistake, and lets men know, that those who will not own, or submit to the Authority of God in the Word, would not be moved by the most signal miracles imaginable. If an holy man, whom we had known assuredly to have been dead for some