A90280:200
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. 18. So it is, as to our Obedience unto God, whereby the Communion between God and man is completed. ⟨p. 137⟩Although the formal object of Divine worship be the nature of God; and the Persons are not worshipped as Persons distinct, but as they are each of them God; yet as God they are every one of them distinctly to be worshipped. So is it, as to our faith, our Love our thanksgiving, all our Obedience, as I have abundantly demonstrated in my Treatise of distinct communion with the Father in Love, the Son in Grace, and the Holy Ghost in the Privileges of the Gospel. Thus without the Acknowledgement of this Truth, none of that Obedience which God requireth at our hands, can in a due manner be performed.
Sect. 18. So it is, as to our Obedience unto God, whereby the Communion betweene God and man is compleated. ⟨p. 137⟩Although the formall object of Divine worship be the nature of God; and the Persons are not worshipped as Persons distinct, but as they are each of them God; yet as God they are every one of them distinctly to be worshipped. So is it, as to our faith, our Love our thanksgiving, all our Obedience, as I have abundantly demonstrated in my Treatise of distinct communion with the Father in Love, the Son in Grace, and the Holy Ghost in the Priviledges of the Gospell. Thus without the Acknowledgment of this Truth, none of that Obedience which God requireth at our hands, can in a due manner be performed.
Sect. 19. Hence the scripture speaks not of any thing between God and us, but what is founded on this Account. The Father worketh, the Son worketh, and the Holy Ghost worketh. The Father worketh not but by the Son and his spirit; The Son & Spirit work not, but from the Father. The Father Glorifieth the Son; the Son Glorifieth the Father; and the Holy Ghost glorifieth ⟨p. 138⟩them both. Before the foundation of the world, the Son was with the Father, and rejoiced in his peculiar work for the Redemption of mankind. At the Creation, the Father made all things, but by the Son, and the Power of the Spirit. In Redemption the Father sends the Son; the Son by his own condescension undertakes the work, and is incarnate by the Holy Ghost. The Father as was said, communicates his love, and all the fruits of it unto us by the Son; as the Holy Ghost doth the merits, and fruits of the mediation of the Son. The Father is not known nor worshipped, but by and in the Son; Nor Father or Son but by the Holy Ghost, &c.