A90280:171
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. 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.
Sect 30. Upon the whole matter then, I would know, whither if the Scriptures should be brought to any man, when, or where, he could not possibly have it attested to be the Word of God, by any public or private Authority of man, or Church, Tradition, or otherwise, he were bound to believe it or no? whither he should obey God in believing, or sin in the rejecting of it? suppose de do but take it into consideration, do but give it the ⟨p. 117⟩reading or hearing, seeing in every place it avers it's self to be the Word of God, he must of necessity either give credit unto it, or disbelieve it; To hang in suspense, which ariseth from the imperfect actings of the faculties of the soul, is in it's self a weakness, and in this case being reckoned no the worst side, is interpretatively a Rejection. If you say it were the duty of such an one to believe it, you acknowledge in the scripture it's self a sufficient Evidence of it's own original Authority; without which it can be no man's duty to believe it. If you say, it would not be his sin to reject and refuse it, to disbelieve all that it speaks in the name of God; then this is that you say; God may truly and really speak unto a man, (as he doth by the Scripture) and yet that man not be bound to believe him. We deal not thus with one another.