A90280:194
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. 13. Let us take a view in our Way of one of the Instances. What is there in the whole Book of God, that nature at first sight doth more recoil at, then the Doctrine of the Trinity? How many do yet stumble & fall at it? I confess the Doctrine its self is but sparingly, yet it is clearly and distinctly delivered unto us in the Scripture. The sum of it is; that God is one; His nature, or his Being, one; That all the Properties, or infinite Essential Excellencies of God, as God, do belong to that one nature and Being. This God is infinitely Good, Holy, Just, Powerful, He is eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent; & these things belong to none, but him that is that One God. That this God is the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; which are not diverse names of the same Person, nor distinct Attributes or Properties of the same nature or Being; but One, Another, and a Third, all equally that One God, yet really distinguished between themselves by such uncommunicable Properties, as constitute the One to be that One, ⟨p. 133⟩and the Other to be that Other; and the Third to be that Third. Thus the Trinity is not the Union, nor Unity of three, but it is a Trinity in Unity, or the Ternary number of Persons in the same Essence; nor doth the Trinity in its formal conception denote the Essence, as if the Essence were comprehended in the Trinity, which is in each Person; but it denotes only the distinction of the Persons comprised in that Number.
Sect. 13. Let us take a view in our Way of one of the Instances. What is there in the whole Book of God, that nature at first sight doth more recoyle at, then the Doctrine of the Trinity? How many do yet stumble & fall at it? I confesse the Doctrine its selfe is but sparingly, yet it is clearly and distinctly delivered unto us in the Scripture. The summe of it is; that God is one; His nature, or his Being, one; That all the Properties, or infinite Essentiall Excellencies of God, as God, do belong to that one nature and Being. This God is infinitely Good, Holy, Just, Powerfull, He is eternall, omnipotent, omnipresēt; & these things belong to none, but him that is that One God. That this God is the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; which are not diverse names of the same Person, nor distinct Attributes or Properties of the same nature or Being; but One, Another, and a Third, all equally that One God, yet really distinguished between themselves by such uncommunicable Properties, as cōstitute the One to be that One, ⟨p. 133⟩