A90280:53
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. 6. 1 That the Laws they made known, the Doctrines they delivered, the Instructions they gave, the Stories they recorded, the Promises of Christ, the Prophesies of Gospel times they gave out, and revealed, were not their own, not conceived in their minds, not formed by their Reasonings, not retained in their memories from ⟨p. 6⟩what they had heard not by any means before hand comprehended by them, (1 Pe. 1. 10, 11.) but were all of them immediately from God; there being only a passive concurrence of their rational faculties in their Reception, without any such active obedience, as by any Law they might be obliged unto. Hence,
Sect. 6. 1 That the Laws they made knowne, the Doctrines they delivered, the Instructions they gave, the Stories they recorded, the Promises of Christ, the Prophesies of Gospell times they gave out, and revealed, were not their own, not conceived in their minds, not formed by their Reasonings, not retained in their memories from ⟨p. 6⟩what they had heard not by any means before hand comprehended by them, (1 Pe. 1. 10, 11.) but were all of thē immediately from God; there being only a passive concurrence of their rational faculties in their Reception, without any such active obedience, as by any Law they might be obliged unto. Hence,
Sect. 7. 2ly God was so with them, and by the Holy Ghost so spake in them, as to their receiving of the word from him, and their delivering of it unto others by speaking or writing, as that they were not themselves enabled by any habitual light, knowledge or Conviction of Truth, to declare his Mind and Will, but only acted, as they were immediately moved by him. Their Tongue in what they said, or their hand in what they wrote, was [Greek or Hebrew] no more at their own disposal, than the Pen is, in the hand of an expert Writer.
Sect. 7. 2ly God was so with them, and by the Holy Ghost so spake in them, as to their receiving of the word from him, and their delivering of it unto others by speaking or writing, as that they were not themselves enabled by any habituall light, knowledge or Conviction of Truth, to declare his Mind and Will, but only acted, as they were immediately moved by him. Their Tongue in what they said, or their hand in what they wrote, was no more at their own disposall, than the Pen is, in the hand of an expert Writer.