A90280:160
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. 17. Abstracting then from the Testimony given in the Scriptures to the miracles wrought by the prime Revealers of the mind and will of God in the Word; and no tolerable assurance as to the business in hand, where a foundation for faith is enquired after, can be given that ever any such miracles were wrought. If numbers of men may be allowed to speak, we may have a Traditional Testimony given to the blasphemous figments of the Alcoran, under the name of True miracles. But the constant Tradition of more than a 1000 years, carried on by innumerable multitudes of men, great, wise, and sober, from one Generation to another, doth but set open the gates of hell for the Mahometans; Yet setting aside the Authority of God in his Word, and what is resolved thereinto, I know not why they may not vie Traditions with the rest of the world. The world indeed is full of Traditions flowing from the Word; that is, a knowledge of the Doctrines of the word in ⟨p. 106⟩the minds of men; but a Tradition of the Word, not resolved into the Word, a tradition referred to a fountain of sense in seeing, and hearing, preserved as an oral law, in a distinct channel, and stream by it's self, when it is evidenced, either by instance in some particular preserved therein, or in a probability of securing it through the Generations passed, by a comparison of some such effect in things of the like kind, I shall be ready to receive it.
Sect. 17. Abstracting then from the Testimony given in the Scriptures to the miracles wrought by the prime Revealers of the mind and will of God in the Word; and no tolerable assurance as to the businesse in hand, where a foundation for faith is enquired after, can be given that ever any such miracles were wrought. If numbers of men may be allowed to speake, we may have a Traditionall Testimony given to the blasphemous figments of the Alcoran, under the name of True miracles. But the constant Tradition of more than a 1000 yeares, carried on by innumerable multitudes of men, great, wise, and sober, from one Generation to another, doth but set open the gates of hell for the Mahumetans; Yet setting aside the Authority of God in his Word, and what is resolved thereinto, I know not why they may not vye Traditions with the rest of the world. The world indeed is full of Traditions flowing from the Word; that is, a knowledge of the Doctrines of the word in ⟨p. 106⟩the minds of men; but a Tradition of the Word, not resolved into the Word, a tradition referred to a fountaine of sense in seeing, and hearing, preserved as an orall law, in a distinct channel, and streame by it's selfe, when it is evidenced, either by instance in some particular preserved therein, or in a probability of securing it through the Generations passed, by a comparison of some such effect in things of the like kind, I shall be ready to receive it.