A90280:121
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. 5. That the Scripture is a Light, we shall see immediately. That it is so, or can be called so, unless it hath this nature and Property of Light, to evidence its self, as well as to give light unto others, cannot in any tolerable correspondency of speech be allowed. Whether Light spiritual and intellectual regarding the mind, or natural with respect to bodily sight, be firstly and properly Light, from whence the other is by Allusion denominated, I need not now enquire. Both have the same properties in their several kinds. [Greek or Hebrew]: true light shineth. [Greek or Hebrew]: 1 Joh. 1. 5. God himself is light; and he inhabiteth [Greek or Hebrew], 1 Tim. 6. 16.1 not a shining glistering brightness, as some grossly imagine, but the Glorious unsearchable Majesty ⟨p. 74⟩of his own Being, which is inaccessible to our understandings. So Isa. 57. 15. inhabiteth eternity. So [Greek or Hebrew] saith the Psalmist, thou clothest thy self with Light: and Dan. 2. 22. [Greek or Hebrew] the Light remaineth with him; God, He is light essentially, and is therefore known by the beaming of his Eternal Properties, in all that outwardly is of him. And light abides with him, as the fountain of it; he communicating Light to all others. This being the fountain of all Light, the more it participates of the nature of the fountain, the more it is Light; and the more properly, as the Properties and Qualities of it are considered. It is then spiritual, moral, intellectual Light, with all its mediums, that hath the preeminence, as to a participation of the nature and properties of light.
Sect. 5. That the Scripture is a Light, we shall see immediately. That it is so, or can be called so, unlesse it hath this nature and Property of Light, to evidence its selfe, as well as to give light unto others, cannot in any tolerable correspondency of speech be allowed. Whether Light spirituall and intellectuall regarding the mind, or naturall with respect to bodily sight, be firstly and properly Light, from whence the other is by Allusion denominated, I need not now enquire. Both have the same properties in their severall kinds. : true light shineth. :