A90280:28
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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as indeed he useth his Arguments, & quotes his Treatise, under the name of Sud Hanisebhoth Hanaegalah. But that (I say) which seems to me most admirable in the Doctors discourse is, that whereas he had prefaced it with the weight of the controversy he had in hand, by the advantage the Papists make of the opinion of the novelty of the Points, citing their words to that purpose, himself in the body of his exercitations falls in with them, and ⟨image 11⟩speaks the very things which he seemed before to have blamed. And by this means this opinion tending so greatly to the disparagement of the Authority of the Originals, is crept in amongst Protestants also. Of the stop put unto its progress by the full and learned Answer of Buxtorfius the younger (who alone in this learning, in this age, seems to answer his Fathers worth) unto Capellus, in his discourse de origine & antiquitate Punctorum, I shall speak more afterwards. However it is not amiss fallen out that the masters of this new persuasion are not at all agreed among themselves. Capellus would have it easy to understand the Hebrew text, and every word, though not absolutely by it self, yet as it lies in its contexture, though there were no points at all. Morinus would make the language altogether unintelligible on that account; the one saith, that the points are a late invention of the Rabbins, and the other, that without them, the understanding of the Hebrew is [Greek or Hebrew], yet though they look diverse ways, there is a firebrand between them. But we have this Brand brought yet nearer to the Churches bread corn, in the prolegomena to the Biblia Polyglotta, lately printed at London. The solemn Espousal of this opinion of the Hebrew punctation, in that great work, was one chief occasion of the second discourse, as you will find it at large declared in the entrance of it. I dare not mention the desperate consequences that attend this imagination, being affrighted among other ⟨image 12⟩things, by a little Treatise lately sent me (upon the occasion of a discourse on this subject) by my worthy and learned friend Dr. Ward, intituled fides divina, wherein its Author, who ever he be, from some principles of this Nature, and unwary Expressions of some learned men amongst us, labours to eject and cast out as useless the whole Scripture or word of God.
as indeed he useth his Arguments, & quotes his Treatise, under the name of Sud Hanisebhoth Hanaegalah. But that (I say) which seems to me most admirable in the Doctors discourse is, that whereas he had prefaced it with the weight of the controversy he had in hand, by the advantage the Papists make of the opinion of the novelty of the Points, citing their words to that purpose, himselfe in the body of his exercitations falls in with them, and