A90280:90
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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1. He doth it by his Works, both of Creation and Providence. All thy works praise thee. Psal. 145. 10. &c. The Heavens declare the Glory of God, and the firmament telleth the works of his hands. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night declareth knowledge. ⟨p. 41⟩There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out throughout the earth, and their word to the end of the world, Psal. 19. 1, 2, 3, 4: &c. So Job: chap. 37. chap. 38. chap. 39; throughout. God who made heaven and earth, and the Sea, and all things that are therein, suffered in times past all nations to walk in their own ways, yet he left not himself without witness in that he did Good, & gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and Gladness, Act. 14. 15, 16, 17. And, God that made the world and all things therein, seeing he is the Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands, neither is worshipped with mens hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth unto all life and breath, and all things, and hath made of one blood all mankind to dwell on the face of the earth, and assigned the seasons which were ordained before, and the bounds of their habitations [Greek or Hebrew], that ⟨p. 42⟩they should seek the Lord, if happily they might feel after him and find him. Act. 17. 24, 25, 26, 27: for, that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them; for the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead. Rom. 1. 18, 19, 20, All which places God assisting shall be opened before long, 1in another Treatise. The sum of them amounts to what was before laid down; namely, that God reveals and declares himself unto us, by the Works of his hands.