A90280:213
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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Had there not been then a necessity incumbent on me, either utterly to desist from pursuing any thoughts of publishing the foregoing Treatise, or else of giving an account of some things contained in the Prolegomena and Appendix, I should for many Reasons have abstained from this Employment. But the truth is, not only what I had written in the first Chapter about the Providence of God in the preservation of the Scripture, but also the main of the Arguments afterwards insisted on by me, concerning the self Evidencing power and Light of the Scripture, receiving in my Apprehension a great weakening by the things I shall ⟨p. 149⟩now speak unto, if owned and received as they are proposed unto us, I could not excuse my self from running the hazard, of giving my thoughts upon them.
Had there not been then a necessity incumbent on me, either utterly to desist from pursuing any thoughts of publishing the foregoing Treatise, or else of giving an account of some things contained in the Prolegomena and Appendix, I should for many Reasons have abstained from this Employment. But the truth is, not only what I had written in the first Chapter about the Providence of God in the preservation of the Scripture, but also the maine of the Arguments afterwards insisted on by me, concerning the selfe Evidencing power and Light of the Scripture, receiving in my Apprehension a great weakning by the things I shall ⟨p. 149⟩now speake unto, if owned and received as they are proposed unto us, I could not excuse my selfe from running the hazard, of giving my thoughts upon them.
Sect. 3. The Wise man tells us, that he considered all travel and every right work, and that for this a man is envied of his neighbour, which saith he, is vanity and vexation of spirit, Eccles. 4. 4. It cannot be denied, but that this often falls out through the Corruption of the hearts of men, that when Works, right Works, are with most sore travel brought forth in the world, their Authors are repaid with envy for their Labour, which mixes all the issues of the best endeavours of men, with vanity, and vexation of spirit. Hiereme of old and Erasmus of late, are the usual instances in this kind. That I have any of that guilt in a peculiar manner, upon me in reference to this work of publishing the Biblia Polyglotta, which I much esteem, or the Authors and contrivers