A90280:232
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 collection of various Readings out of Grotius, consisting for the most part in such conjectures, is in the Appendix presented unto us.
5. The voluminous Bulk of various Lections, as nakedly exhibited, seems sufficient to be get scruples and doubts in the minds of men, about the Truth of what hath been hitherto by many pretended concerning the Preservation of the Scripture through the care and providence of God.
5. The voluminous Bulke of various Lections, as nakedly exhibited, seemes sufficient to be get scruples and doubts in the minds of men, about the Truth of what hath been hitherto by many pretended concerning the Preservation of the Scripture through the care and providence of God.
Sect. 8. It is known to all men acquainted with things of this nature, that in all these, there is no new opinion coined or maintained by the learned prefacer to these Bibles. The severals mentioned, have been asserted and maintained by sundry learned men. Had the opinion about them been kept in the ordinary ⟨p. 160⟩Sphere of mens private conceptions in their own private writings, running the hazard of mens Judgments on their own strength and Reputation, I should not from my former discourse have esteemed my self concerned in them. Every one of us must give an account of himself unto God. It will be well for us, if we are found holding the foundation. If we build hay and stubble upon it, though our work perish, we shall be saved. Let every man in these things be fully persuaded in his own mind, it shall be to me no offence. It is their being laid as the foundation of the usefulness of these biblia polyglotta, with an endeavour to render them catholic, not in their own strength, but in their Appendage to the Authority, that on Good grounds is expected to this work, that calls for a due consideration of them. All men who will find them stated in these prolegomena, may not perhaps have had leisure, may not perhaps have the Ability to know what issue the most of these things have been already driven unto, in the writings of private men.