A90280:39
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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And thus have I given you a brief account, how by the subtlety of Satan, there are principles crept in, even amongst Protestants, undermining the Authority of the Hebrew verity, as it was called of Old; wherein Jerusalem hath justified Samaria, and cleared the Papists in their reproaching of the Word of God. Of the New Testament I shall speak particularly in the second discourse ensuing. Morinus indeed tells us, de Heb: & Graec: Text: Sincerit. Exercitat: 1. cap: 1. p. 5. it is a jocular thing that the Heretics in their Disputations do grant, that there are Corruptions, and various Lections in the Greek & Latin copies of the Scripture, but deny it as to the Hebrew: but why, I pray, is this so ridiculous? It is founded on no less stable bottom than this experience, that whereas we evidently find various lections in the Greek copies which we enjoy, and so grant that which ocular Inspection evinces to be true; yet although men discover such virulent and bitter spirits against the Hebrew Text, as this Morinus doth, calling all men fools or knaves that contend for its purity, yet they are none of them able to show out of any Copies yet extant in the ⟨image 16⟩World, or that they can make appear ever to have been extant, that ever there were any such various lections in the Originals of the Old Testament. And is there any reason that we should be esteemed Ridiculous, because believing our own eyes, we will not also believe the Testimony of same few men of no credit with us, asserting that for truth, which we have abundant cause to believe to be utterly false; But of these men so far.
And thus have I given you a briefe account, how by the subtilty of Satan, there are principles crept in, even amongst Protestants, undermining the Authority of the Hebrew verity, as it was called of Old; wherein Hierusalem hath justified Samaria, and cleared the Papists in their reproaching of the Word of God. Of the New Testament I shall speake particularly in the second discourse ensuing. Morinus indeed tels us, de Heb: & Graec: Tex: Sincerit. Exercitat: 1. cap: 1. p. 5. it is a jocular thing that the Hereticks in their Disputations do grant, that there are Corruptions, and various Lections in the Greek & Latine copies of the Scripture, but deny it as to the Hebrew: but why, I pray, is this so ridiculous? It is founded on no lesse stable bottome than this experience, that whereas we evidently find various lections in the Greek copies which we enjoy, and so grant that which ocular Inspection evinces to be true; yet although men discover such virulent and bitter spirits against the Hebrew Text, as this Morinus doth, calling all men fooles or knaves that contend for its purity, yet they are none of them able to shew out of any Copies yet extant in the