A90280:211
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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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⟩unto us, with the grounds and Reasons of them in the prolegomena. Having now discharged that task, and (as things were stated) duty, I shall crave leave to deliver my thoughts to some things contained in them, which possibly men of perverse minds may wrest to the prejudice of my former Assertions, to the prejudice of the certainty of divine Truth, as continued unto us through the Providence of God in the Originals of the Scripture.
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 Bulkie collection of various Readings, which the Appendix tenders to the view of every one th•t 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 worke, not unlike those which my owne thoughts had suggested unto me. Afterwards, considering what I had written, about the Providence of God in the preservation of the Originall Copies of the Scripture in the foregoing discourse, fearing least from that great Appearance of Variations in the Originall 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 progresse of those thoughts, untill I could get time to looke through the Appendix, and the various Lections in that great Volume exhibited