A90280:239
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. 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.
Sect. 2. First then, it is granted that the individuall 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 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 individuall Inke and Parchment, the ⟨p. 164⟩Rolls or books that they wrote, could not without a miracle have been preserved from mouldring into dust before this time. Nor doth it seeme improbable, that God was willing by their losse to reduce us to a nearer consideration of his care and Providence in the preservation of every Tittle contained in them. Had those individuall writings been preserved, men would have been ready to adore thē, as the Jewes do their own 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in their Synagogues.
- *Adrianus Ferrariensi• flagellum Judaeor: lib. 9. 6. 2. Rab: Azarias Me• or Henaim. pa. 13. cap. 9.