A90280:170
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. 28. Before the committing of the Scriptures to writing, God had given the World an Experiment what keepers men were of this Revelation by tradition; Within some hundreds of years after the flood, all knowledge of him, through the craft of Satan, and the vanity of the minds of men which is unspeakable, was so lost, that nothing, but as it were the creation of a new World, or the Erection of a new Church state by new Revelations, could relieve it. After that great ⟨p. 116⟩trial what can be farther pretended, on the behalf of Tradition I know not.
Sect. 28. Before the committing of the Scriptures to writing, God had given the World an Experiment what keepers men were of this Revelation by tradition; Within some hundreds of yeares after the flood, all knowledge of him, through the craft of Sathan, and the vanity of the minds of men which is unspeakable, was so lost, that nothing, but as it were the creation of a new World, or the Erection of a new Church state by new Revelations, could relieve it. After that great ⟨p. 116⟩triall what can be farther pretended, on the behalfe of Tradition I know not.
Sect. 29. The sum of all is; The merciful Good Providence of God, having by divers and various means; using therein amongst other things, the ministry of men and Churches, preserved the Writings of the Old and New Testament in the World; and by the same gracious disposal afforded them unto us, they are received and submitted unto by us, upon the Grounds and evidences of their divine Original before insisted on.
Sect. 29. The summe of all is; The mercifull Good Providence of God, having by divers and various meanes; using therin amongst other things, the ministry of men and Churches, preserved the Writings of the Old and New Testament in the World; and by the same gratious disposall afforded them unto us, they are received and submitted unto by us, upon the Grounds and evidences of their divine Originall before insisted on.