A90280:307
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 16. To what I have spoken, I shall add the words of learned Dr Lightfoot in his late Centuria Chorograph. which came to my hands since the finishing of this discourse, cap. 81. p. 146. sunt qui punctata Biblia credunt à sapientibus Tiberiensibus; (he means Elijah only, for other Jews of this opinion there are none) Ego impudentiam Judaeorum, qui fabulam invenerunt non miror: Christianorum credulitatem miror, qui applaudunt. Recognosce (quaeso) nomina Tiberiensium, à sita illic primum Academia ad eam expirantem: & quidnam tandem invenies, nisi genus hominum, prae Pharisaismo insaniens, traditionibus fascinans & fascinatum, coecum, vafrum, delirum; ignoscant, si dicam Magicum, & monstrosum? ad opus tam divinum homines quàm ineptos, quàm stolidos! Perlege Talmud Hierosolymitanum, et nota qualiter illic see habeant R. Judah, R. Chamnath, Z. Judan, R. Hoshaia, R. Chaija Rubba, R. Chaija bar Ba, R. Jochananan, reliquique inter Tiberienses grandissimi doctores, quàm seriò nihil agunt, quàm pueriliter ⟨p. 246⟩seria, quanta in ipsorum disputationibus vafrities, spuma, venenum, fumus, nihil: & si punctata fuisse Biblia in istiusmodi Schola potes credere, crede & omnia Talmudica. Opus spiritûs sancti sapit punctatio Bibliorum, non opus hominum perditorum, excae•atorum, amentium. In the words of this learned person there is the sum of what I am pleading for. Saith he, I do not admire the Jews Impudence, who found out that fable; I admire Christians credulity who applaud it. Recount I pray the names of the Tiberians from the first foundation of an University there to the expiring thereof, and what do you find, but a sort of men being mad with (or above) the Pharisees, bewitching and bewitched with traditions, blind, crafty, raging; pardon me if I say Magical, and monstrous? what fools, what Sots as to such a divine work? Read over the Talmud of Jerusalem, consider how R. Judah, R. Chanina, R. Chajia Bar Ba, R. Jochanan, R. Jonathan, and the rest of the great Doctors among the Tiberians do behave themselves? how seriously they do of nothing? how childish they are in ⟨p. 247⟩serious things, how much deceitfulness, froth, venom, smoke, nothing, in their disputations: & if you can believe the points of the bible to proceed from such a school, believe also all their Talmuds; the pointing of the Bible savours of the work of the holy spirit, not of wicked, blind, and mad men.