A90280:23
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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A page caecam animorum libidinem, non jam in institutionem nostram subsistit litera, sed Ecclesiae spiritus; neque è sacris codicibus hauriendum quidquam, nisi quod illa communicatum esse nobiscum voluerit. So he, or Morinus in his name; and if this be indeed the true state of things, I suppose he will very hardly convince men of the least usefulness of this great work and undertaking. To usher those bibles into the world, Morinus puts forth his Exercitations, entitled of the sincerity ⟨image 8⟩of the Hebrew and Greek Text, indeed to prove them corrupt and useless. He is now the man amongst them that undertakes to defend this cause: in whose writings whether there be more of Pyrgopolynices, or Rabshekah, is uncertain. But dogs that bark• loud, seldom bite deep; nor do I think many ages have produced a man of more confidence and less judgment; a prudent Reader cannot but nauseate at all his leaves, and the man is well laid open by a learned person of his own party. By the way,1 I cannot but observe, that in the height of his boasting, he falls upon his mother Church, and embraces her to death. Ex•rcit. 1, cap. 1. pag. 11. that he might vaunt himself to be the first and only discoverer of corruptions in the original of the old Testament, with the causes of them, he falls into a profound contemplation of the guidance of his Church, which being ignorant of any such cause of rejecting the originals, as he hath now informed her of, yet continued to reject them, and prefer the vulgar latin before them hîc admirare lector (saith he) Dei spiritum ecclesiae praesentissimum, illam per obscura, perplexa, & invia quaeque, inoffenso pede agentem: quanquam incognita esset Rabbinorum supina negligentia, portentosa ignorantia, saed•que librorum Judaicorum corruptela, & ⟨image 8⟩Haeretici contraria his magnâ verborum pompâ audacter jactarent; adduci tamen non potuit Ecclesia, ut versio, quâ solâ per mille ferè & centum annos usa fuerit, ad normam & amussim Hebraei textus iterum recuderetur. But is it so indeed, that their Church receives its guidance in a stupid brutish manner, so as to be fixed obstinately on conclusions, without the least acquaintance with the premises? it seems she loved not the Originals, but she knew not why; only she was obstinate in this, that she loved them not.