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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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1. The occasion of this Discourse. 2. The Danger of supposing corruptions in the Originals of the Scripture. 3. The great usefulness of the Biblia Polyglotta. 4. The Grounds of the ensuing animadversions. 5. The Assertions proposed to be vindicated laid down. 6. Their weight and importance. 7. Sundry principles in the Prolegomena prejudicial to the Truth contended for, laid down. 8. Those Principles formerly asserted by others. Reasons of the opposition made to them.
1. The occasion of this Discourse. 2. The Danger of supposing corruptions in the Originalls of the Scripture. 3. The great usefullnesse of the Biblia Polyglotta. 4. The Grounds of the ensuing animadversions. 5. The Assertions proposed to be vindicated laid downe. 6. Their weight and importance. 7. Sundry principles in the Prolegomena prejudiciall to the Truth contended for, laid downe. 8. Those Principles formerly asserted by others. Reasons of the opposition made to them.
Scte. 1. WHEN this whole little precedent Treatise was finished, and ready to be given out unto the Stationer, there came to my hands the Prolegomena ⟨p. 146⟩and Appendix to the Biblia Polyglotta lately published. Upon the first sight of that volume, I was somewhat startled with that Bulky collection of various Readings, which the Appendix tenders to the view of every one that doth but cast an eye upon it. Within a while after I found that others also men of Learning and Judgment, had apprehensions of that work, not unlike those which my own thoughts had suggested unto me. Afterwards, considering what I had written, about the Providence of God in the preservation of the Original Copies of the Scripture in the foregoing discourse, fearing least from that great Appearance of Variations in the Original Copies, and those of all the Translations published with so great care and diligence, there might some unconquerable objections against the Truth of what I had asserted, be educed; I judged it necessary to stop the progress of those thoughts, until I could get time to look through the Appendix, and the various Lections in that great Volume exhibited ⟨p. 147⟩