A90280:301
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. 12. All this while the Jews enjoyed the Letter of the Scriptures, as they do to this day, yea they receive it sometimes with the honour and Veneration due to God alone. God preserved it amongst them for our present use, their farther condemnation, and means of their future conversion. But after the destruction of the Temple, and rejection of their whole Church-state, the Word was no longer committed to them of God, nor were they entrusted with it, nor are to this day. They have it not by promise, or Covenant, as they had of old. Isa. 59. 21. Their possession of it is not accompanied with the Administration of the spirit, without which, as we see in the instance of themselves, the Word is a dead letter, of no efficacy for the Good of souls. They have the letter amongst them, as sometimes they had the Ark in the battle against the Philistines, ⟨p. 237⟩for their greater ruin.
Sect. 12. All this while the Jews enjoyed the Letter of the Scriptures, as they do to this day, yea they receive it sometimes with the honour and Veneration due to God alone. God preserved it amongst them for our present use, their farther condemnation, and meanes of their future conversion. But after the destruction of the Temple, and rejection of their whole Church-state, the Word was no longer committed to them of God, nor were they intrusted with it, nor are to this day. They have it not by promise, or Covenant, as they had of old. Isa. 59. 21. Their possession of it is not accompanied with the Administration of the spirit, without which, as we see in the instance of themselves, the Word is a dead letter, of no efficacy for the Good of soules. They have the letter amongst them, as sometimes they had the Ark in the battell against the Philistines, ⟨p. 237⟩for their greater ruine.