A90280:165
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. 23. But yet suppose, that this also were granted, and that men might be allowed to speak in their own name and Authority, giving Testimony to themselves, which upon the hypothesis under consideration, God himself is not allowed to do; I shall desire to know whither, when the Church declares the scriptures to be the Word of God unto us, it doth apprehend any thing in the Scripture as the Ground of that Judgment and declaration or no? If it says no; but that it is proposed upon it's sole Authority; then surely if we think Good to acquiesce in this decision of this doubt and enquiry, it is full time for us, to lay aside all our studies and enquiries after the Mind of God, and seek only what that man, or those men say, who are entrusted with this ⟨p. 111⟩Authority, as they say, and as they would have us believe them, though we know not at all how or by what means they came by it; seeing they dare not pretend any thing from the Scripture, least thereby they direct us to that, in the first place.
Sect. 23. But yet suppose, that this also were granted, and that men might be allowed to speake in their owne name and Authority, giving Testimony to themselves, which upon the hypothesis under consideration, God himselfe is not allowed to doe; I shall desire to know whither, when the Church declares the scriptures to be the Word of God unto us, it doth apprehend any thing in the Scripture as the Ground of that Judgment and declaration or no? If it sayes no; but that it is proposed upon it's sole Authority; then surely if we thinke Good to acquiesse in this decision of this doubt and enquiry, it is full time for us, to lay aside all our studdies and enquiries after the Mind of God, and seek only what that man, or those men say, who are intrusted with this ⟨p. 111⟩Authority, as they say, and as they would have us believe them, though we know not at all how or by what meanes they came by it; seeing they dare not pretend any thing from the Scripture, least thereby they direct us to that, in the first place.