A90280:149
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. 9. As in our natural Estate in respect of these things of God, the mind is full of vanity, darkness, blindness, yea is darkness its self, so that there is no correspondency between the faculty and the Object; and the Will lies in an utter unacquaintedness, yea impossibility of any acquaintance with the life, power, savour, sweetness, relish, and Goodness, that is in the things proposed to be known and discerned, under the dark shades of a blind mind; so for a removal of both these, the Holy Ghost communicates Light to the Understanding, whence it is able to see and judge of the truth, as it is in Jesus, and the Will being thereby delivered from the dungeon wherein it was, and quickened a new, performs its office, in embracing what is proper and suited unto it in the object proposed. The Spirit indeed discovereth to every one [Greek or Hebrew]; according to the counsel of his will; but yet in that way, in the General whereby ⟨p. 96⟩the Sun gives out his light and heat, the former making way for the latter: But these things must not now be insisted on.
Sect. 9. As in our naturall Estate in respect of these things of God, the mind is full of vanity, darknesse, blindnesse, yea is darkness its selfe, so that there is no correspondency between the faculty and the Object; and the Will lies in an utter unacquaintednesse, yea impossibility of any acquaintance with the life, power, savour, sweetnesse, relish, and Goodnesse, that is in the things proposed to be known and discerned, under the darke shades of a blind mind; so for a removall of both these, the Holy Ghost communicates Light to the Understanding, whence it is able to see and judge of the truth, as it is in Jesus, and the Will being thereby delivered from the dungeon wherein it was, and quickened a new, performes its office, in embracing what is proper and suited unto it in the object proposed. The Spirit indeed discovereth to every one 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; according to the counsell of his will; but yet in that way, in the Generall whereby ⟨p. 96⟩the Sun gives out his light and heate, the former making way for the latter: But these things must not now be insisted on.