A90280:312
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. 19. It is not my design to give in Arguments for the Divine original of the present Hebrew punctation; neither do I Judge it necessary for any one so to do, whilst the learned Buxtorfius discourse de origine & antiquitate punctorum, lies unanswered. I shall therefore only add one or two considerations, which to me are of weight, and not as I remember mentioned by him, or his Father in his Tiberias, or any other that I know of in their disputes to this purpose.
Sect. 19. It is not my designe to give in Arguments for the Divine original of the present Hebrew punctation; neither doe I Judge it necessary for any one so to doe, whilest the learned Buxtorfius discourse de origine & antiquitate punctorum, lyes unanswered. I shall therefore only adde one or two considerations, which to me are of weight, and not as I remember mentioned by him, or his Father in his Tiberias, or any other that I know of in their disputes to this purpose.
1 If the points; or vowels and Accents, be coaevous with the rest of the Letters, or have an original before all Grammar of that Language (as indeed languages are not made by Grammar, but Grammars are made by Languages) then the Grammar of it and them, must be collected from the observation of their use, as they ⟨p. 253⟩were found in all their variety before any such art, was invented or used; and Rules must be suited thereunto; The drawing into Rules all the Instances that being uniform would fall under such Rules, and the distinct observation of Anomalous words, either singly, or in Exceptions comprehending many under one head, that would not be so reduced, was the work of Grammar. But on the other side, if the Vowels and Accents were invented by themselves, and added to the Letters, then the Rule and Art of disposing, transposing, and changing of them, must be constituted and fixed before the disposition of them; for they were placed after the Rules made, and according to them. A middle way that I know of, cannot be fixed on. Either they are of the Original writing of the Language, and have had Rules made by their station therein, or they have been supplied unto it according to Rules of Art. Things are not thus come to pass by chance; nor was this world created by a casual concurrence of these Atoms. Now if the