A90280:216
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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It is not of any such Attempt, that I have any cause to complain, or shall so do in reference to these Prolegomena and ⟨p. 152⟩Appendix; only I could have wished, (with submission to better Judgments be it spoken,) that in the publishing of the Bible, the Sacred Text, with the Translations, and such naked historical accounts of their Originals and preservation, as were necessary to have laid them fair and open to the Judgment of the Reader, had not been clogged with disputes and pleas for particular private opinions, imposed thereby with too much advantage on the minds of men, by their constant neighbourhood unto canonical Truth.
It is not of any such Attempt, that I have any cause to complaine, or shall so doe in reference to these Prolegomena and ⟨p. 152⟩Appendix; only I could have wished, (with submision to better Judgments be it spoken,) that in the publishing of the Bible, the Sacred Text, with the Translations, and such naked historicall accounts of their Originalls and preservation, as were necessary to have laid them faire and open to the Judgment of the Reader, had not been clogged with disputes and pleas for particular private opinions, imposed thereby with too much advantage on the minds of men, by their constant neighbourhood unto canonicall Truth.
Sect. 5. But my present considerations being not to be extended beyond the concernement of the Truth which in the foregoing discourse I have pleaded for, I shall first propose a brief abstract thereof, as to that part of it, which seems to be especially concerned, and then lay down what to me appears in it's prejudice in the Volumes now under debate; not doubting but a fuller account of the whole, will by some or other be speedily ⟨p. 153⟩tendered unto the Learned and impartial Readers of them. The sum of what I am pleading for, as to the particular Head to be vindicated is; that as the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, were immediately, and entirely given out by God himself, his mind being in them represented unto us, without the least interveniency of such mediums, and Ways, as were capable of giving change or alteration to the least iota or syllable; so by his Good and merciful providential dispensation, in his Love to his Word and Church, his whole Word as first given out by him, is preserved unto us entire in the Original Languages; where shining in its own beauty and lustre, (as also in all Translations so far, as they faithfully represent the Originals) it manifests and evidences unto the consciences of men, without other foreign help or assistance, its divine original and Authority.