A90280:305
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. 15. Of all the fables that are in the Talmud, I know none more incredible than this story: that men, who cannot by any story or other record, be made to appear, that they ever were in rerum naturâ: such men, as we have described, obscure, unobserved, not taken notice of by any Learned man, Jew or Christian, should in a time of deep ignorance in the place where they lived, amongst a people wholly addicted to monstrous fables, themselves blinded under the Curse of God, find out so great, so excellent a work, of such unspeakable usefulness, not once advising with the men of their own profession and Religion, who then flourished in great abundance at Babylon, and the places adjacent, and impose it on all the World (that receive the Scriptures) and have every Tittle of their work received, without any opposition or question, from any person or persons, of any principle whatever; yea so, as to have their Invention made the constant Rule of all following Expositions, Comments, and Interpretations: ⟨p. 244⟩Credat Apella.
Sect. 15. Of all the fables that are in the Talmud, I know none more incredible than this story: that men, who cannot by any story or other record, be made to appeare, that they ever were in rerum naturâ: such men, as we have described, obscure, unobserved, not taken notice of by any Learned man, Jew or Christian, should in a time of deep ignorance in the place where they lived, amongst a people wholy addicted to monstrous fables, themselves blinded under the Curse of God, find out so great, so excellent a work, of such unspeakable usefulnesse, not once advising with the men of their own profession and Religion, who then flourished in great abundance at Babylon, and the places adjacent, and impose it on all the World (that receive the Scriptures) and have every Tittle of their work received, without any opposition or question, from any person or persons, of any principle whatever; yea so, as to have their Invention made the constant Rule of all following Expositions, Comments, and Interpretations: ⟨p. 244⟩Credat Apella.