A90280:238
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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Sect. 1. Having given an account of the Occasion of this discourse, and ⟨p. 163⟩mentioned the particulars that are, all, or some of them, to be taken into further consideration, before I proceed to their discussion, I shall by way of Addition, and Explanation to what hath been delivered in the former Treatise, give a brief account of my Apprehensions concerning the purity of the present Original copies of the Scripture, or rather copies of the Original languages, which the Church of God doth now, and hath for many Ages enjoyed, as her chiefest Treasure; whereby it may more fully appear, what it is, we plead for and defend against the insinuations and pretences above mentioned.
Sect. 1. HAving given an account of the Occasion of this discourse, and ⟨p. 163⟩mentioned the particulars that are, all, or some of them, to be taken into further consideration, before I proceed to their discussion, I shall by way of Addition, and Explanation to what hath been delivered in the former Treatise, give a briefe account of my Apprehensions concerning the purity of the present Originall copies of the Scripture, or rather copies of the Originall languages, which the Church of God doth now, and hath for many Ages enjoyed, as her cheifest Treasure; whereby it may more fully appeare, what it is, we plead for and defend against the insinuations and pretences above mentioned.
Sect. 2. First then, it is granted that the individual [Greek or Hebrew] of Moses, the Prophets, and the Apostles, are in all probability, and as to all that we know, utterly perished and lost out of the world. As also the copies of Ezra. The *Reports mentioned by some to the contrary, are open fictions. The individual Ink and Parchment, the ⟨p. 164⟩Rolls or books that they wrote, could not without a miracle have been preserved from mouldering into dust before this time. Nor doth it seem improbable, that God was willing by their loss to reduce us to a nearer consideration of his care and Providence in the preservation of every Tittle contained in them. Had those individual writings been preserved, men would have been ready to adore them, as the Jews do their own [Greek or Hebrew] in their Synagogues.