A90280:244
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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Even among the Heathen, we will scarce think that the Roman Pontifices, ⟨p. 171⟩going solemnly to transcribe the Sibyls verses, would do it either negligently or treacherously, or alter one Tittle from what they found written; and shall we entertain such thoughts of them, who knew they had to do with the living God, and that in and about that, which is dearer to him, than all the world besides. Let men then clamour as they please, and cry out of all men as ignorant and stupid which will not grant the corruptions of the old Testament which they plead for, which is the way of Morinus; or let them propose their own conjectures of the ways of the entrance of the mistakes that they pretend are crept into the original copies, with their Remedies, which is the way of Capellus, we shall acknowledge nothing of this nature but what they can prove by undeniable, and irrefragable instances, which as to any thing as yet done by them, or those that follow in their footsteps, appears upon the matter to be nothing at all. To this purpose take our sense in the word of a very learned man. Ut in iis libris qui sine vocalibus ⟨p. 172⟩conscripti sunt, certum constantémque exemplarium omnium, tum excusarum scriptionem similémque omnino comperimus, sic in omnibus etiam iis quibus puncta sunt addita, non aliam cuipiam nec Discrepantem aliis punctationem observavimus; nec quisquam est qui ullo in loco diversa lectionis Hebraicae exemplaria ab iis quae circumferuntur, vidisse see asserat, modo Grammaticam rationem observatam dicat. Et quidem Dei consilio ac voluntate factum putamus, ut cum magna Graecorum Latinorúmque ferè omnium ejusdem auctoris exemplarium, ac praesertim manuscriptorū pluribus in locis varietas deprehendatur, magna tamen in omnibus Hebraicis quaecunq, nostro saeculo inveninutur, Bib iis, scriptionis aequalitas, similitudo atque constantia servetur quocunque modo scripta illa sint, sive solis consonantibus constent, sive punctis etiam instructa visantur; Arias Montan. Praefat. ad Bibia Interlin. de varia Hebraicorum librorum scriptione & lectione.
Even among the Heathen, we will scarse thinke that the Roman Pontifices, ⟨p. 171⟩going solemnly to transcribe the Sybils verses, would doe it either negligently or treacherously, or alter one Tittle from what they found written; and shall we entertaine such thoughts of them, who knew they had to doe with the living God, and that in and about that, which is dearer to him, than all the world besides. Let men then clamour as they please, and cry out of all men as ignorant and stupid which will not grant the corruptions of the old Testament which they plead for, which is the way of Morinus; or let them propose their owne conjectures of the wayes of the entrance of the mistakes that they pretend are crept into the originall copies, with their Remedies, which is the way of Capellus, we shall acknowledge nothing of this nature but what they can prove by undeniable, and irrefragable instances, which as to any thing as yet done by them, or those that follow in their footsteps, appeares upon the matter to be nothing at all. To this purpose take our sense in the word of a very learned man. Ut in iis libris qui sine vocalibus