A90280:158
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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These she pleads now under her keeping to be woefully corrupted, and yet is angry that we believe not her Tradition.
Sect. 16. Some add that we receive the Scripture to be the Word of God upon the account of the miracles that were wrought at the giving of the Law, and of the new Testament; which miracles we have received by universal Tradition. But first I desire to know whence it comes to pass, that seeing our saviour Jesus Christ wrought many other miracles besides those that are written, Joh. 20. 30. ch. 21. 25. and the Apostles likewise, they cannot by all their Traditions help us to so much as an obscure report of any one, that is not written; (I speak not of Legends) which yet at their performance were no less known then those that are; nor were less useful for the end of miracles then they. Of Tradition in General afterwards▪ But is it not evident that the miracles whereof they speak, are preserved in the Scripture and no otherwise? And if so; can these miracles operate upon the understanding or judgment of any man, unless they first grant the Scripture to be the Word of God, I mean to ⟨p. 104⟩the begetting of a divine faith of them, even that there were ever any such miracles. Suppose these miracles alleged, as the Ground of our believing of the word, had not been written, but like the Sibyls leaves had been driven up and down, by the Worst and fiercest wind that blows in this world, the breath of man; Those who should keep them by tradition, that is men, are by nature so vain, foolish, malicious, such liars, adders, detractors, have spirits and minds so unsuited to spiritual things, so liable to alteration in themselves, and to contradiction one to another, are so given to impostures, and are so apt to be imposed upon, have been so shuffled and driven up and down the world in every Generation, have for the most part so utterly lost the Remembrance of what themselves are, whence they come, or whether they are to go, that I can give very little credit to what I have nothing but their Authority to rely upon for, without any Evidence from the nature of the thing it's self.