A90280:7
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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To my Reverend and Worthy Friends, the PREBENDS of Ch: Church College in Oxford, with all the STUDENT'S in Divinity in that Society.
To my Reverend and Worthy Friends, the PREBENDS of Ch: Church Colledge in Oxford, with all the STVDENT'S in Divinity in that Society.
THE reason of my inscribing the ensuing pleas for the Authority, purity, and perfection of the Scripture, against the pretences of some to the contrary, in these days, unto you, is because some of you value and study the Scripture as much as any I know, and it is the earnest desire of my heart, that all of you would so do. Now whereas two things offer themselves unto me, to discourse with you by the way of Preface, namely the commendation of the Scripture, and an exhortation to the study of it on the one hand, and a discovery of the reproach that is cast upon it, with the various ways and means that are used by some for the lessening and depressing of its Authority and excellency on the other; the former being to good purpose, by one or other almost every day performed; I shall insist at present on the latter only; which also is more suited to discover my aim and intention in the ensuing discourses. Now herein as I shall, it may be, seem to exceed that proportion which is due unto a Preface to such short discourses as these following; ⟨image 3⟩yet I know, I shall be more brief then the nature of so great a matter as that proposed to consideration doth require. And therefore [Greek or Hebrew], I shall fall upon the subject that now lies before me.
THE reason of my inscribing the ensuing pleas for the Authority, purity, and perfection of the Scripture, against the pretences of some to the contrary, in these dayes, unto you, is because some of you value and study the Scripture as much as any I know, and it is the earnest desire of my heart, that all of you would so do. Now whereas two things offer themselves unto me, to discourse with you by the way of Preface, namely the commendation of the Scripture, and an exhortation to the study of it on the one hand, and a discovery of the reproach that is cast upon it, with the various wayes and meanes that are used by some for the lessening and depressing of its Authority and excellency on the other; the former being to good purpose, by one or other almost every day performed; I shall insist at present on the latter only; which also is more suited to discover my aime and intention in the ensuing discourses. Now herein as I shall, it may be, seeme to exceed that proportion which is due unto a Preface to such short discourses as these following;