A90280:290
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. 6. But this trial needs not be feared. Grant the points to have the Original pretended, yet they deserve all regard, and are of singular use for the right understanding of the scripture: so that it is not lawful to depart from them, without urgent necessity, and Evidences of a better l•ction to be substituted in the room of that refused. But as this relieves ⟨p. 222⟩us not, but still leaves us within the sphere of rational conjectures. So whether it can honestly be pretended and pleaded in this case, comes nextly to be discovered by the consideration of the supposed Authors of this Invention.
Sect. 6. But this triall needs not be feared. Grant the points to have the Originall pretended, yet they deserve all regard, and are of singular use for the right understanding of the scripture: so that it is not lawfull to depart from them, without urgent necessity, and Evidences of a better l•ction to be substituted in the roome of that refused. But as this relieves ⟨p. 222⟩us not, but still leaves us within the spheare of rationall conjectures. So whether it can honestly be pretended and pleaded in this case, comes nextly to be discovered by the consideration of the supposed Authors of this Invention.
Sect. 7. The founders of this story of the Invention of the Hebrew points, tell us, that it was the Work of some Rabbins, living at Tiberias a City in Galilee, about the year of Christ 500, or in the next Century, after the death of Hierome, and the finishing of the Babylonian Talmud; The improbability of this story or Legend, I am not now to insist upon. Morinus makes the lye louder. He tells us that the Babylonian Talmud was finished but a little before the yeare 700, Ex. 2. Cap. 3. par poster: that the Massorites (to whom he ascribes the invention of the points) wrote a long time after the finishing of the Talmud, and the year 700 p: p: 5. cap. 3; this long time cannot denote less than some 100d, of years. And yet the same man in his preface to his Samaritica