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A53661 Remarks on a sermon, about corrupting the word of God preach'd by Tho. Gipps Rector of Bury, on a publick occasion, July 11, 1696, wherein the dissenters are fully vindicated against his vnjust accusations / by J.O., Minister of the Gospel at Oswestry. Owen, James, 1654-1706. 1697 (1697) Wing O709; ESTC R6175 33,441 32

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unthought-of-Faults by an unseasonable and weak attempt to cover them He asks Why the Titles are not always Translated The Bishops cou'd best resolve that Question whose Translation the Dissenters use His other Questions there are not worth the Answering p. 3 4. 3. It is not a diminishing from the Word saith he when we read some Verses of a Chapter omitting the rest for that Time p. 5. But what if they be omitted at all Times As some Chapters and Books are in the Kalender it seems according to the Rector's Restriction a diminishing from the Word of God I leave him and Mr. De Laune to argue Whether the Epistles and Gospels do not in divers Places ruine the Scope and Connexion which is the Subject of this and the two next Pages p. 6 7. 4. It is not adding to the Word continues he when several Passages of Scripture are cast into one Complex Sense Here he falls soul upon Mr. De Laune again for affirming that in the Liturgy-Translation of the Psalms three whole Verses are foisted into the 14th Psalm To this he Answers that those Verses are in the Epistle to the Romans Cap. 3. and in the LXX Translation which for ought he knows is of as good Authority as the Hebrew at this Day is and to be preferr'd before the Hebrew in this 14th Psalm p. 8 9. That those additional Verses are in Rom. 3. no Body Questions and that they were transcribed out of that ●pistle into the LXX Version Jerom positively affirms Prefat Lib. 16. in Isa And he adds in the same Place that these Verses are not in the LXX Translation and that none of the Greek Interpreters have Commented on them It is certain they are not to be found in most of the Greek Copies Manuscript and Printed vid. Fr. Luc. Burgs in Lib. Notat ad varias Lect. Vulg. Edit I will not Dispute at this time the Authority of the LXX but if it be as good as the present Hebrew Copy it is very uncertain what becomes of the Rector's Text for it is not in my Edition of the Septuagint Printed at Cambr. 1665 Juxta exemplar Vaticanum which is one of the best Copies Thus the Rector by maintaining one absurdity runs himself into more and by advancing the Septuagint hath lost his Text. We have Reason to believe that the Hebrew Copies were incorrupt in our Saviours Time who never charged the Jews with corrupting the Scriptures And Philo not long after writes that even unto his Times for the space of above 2000 Years not one Word had ever been chang'd in the Law of the Hebrews and that every Jew would sooner dye a hundred Deaths than suffer the Law to be chang'd in any one Point Phil de Egress fil Isr ab Aegypto This Testimony is cited by Euseb Praepar Evang. VIII 2. The Invention of the Masora in which all the Verses Words and Letters of all the Books of the Old Testament are number'd has been an effectual means to preserve the Purity of the Hebrew Copies If it be as old as Ezra the Scribe as the Learned Buxtorf conceives it renders it impossible that any Corruption should have crept into the Hebrew Copies vid. Buxt Tiberias But if it were written after the Talmud by the Jews of Tiberias about the Year 500. as Elias Levita Capellus and others think it has undeniably secured the Hebrew Copies from all Corruption since that Time And it is highly improbable they should be corr●pted between Philo's Time and the Invention of the Masora according to this latter Hypothesis For the Hebrew Copies which Jerom had towards the latter end of the Fourth Century were incorrupt and had not the additional Verses in Psalm 14. Nor can we imagine that the Jews of that Age had degenerat●d from the Zeal of their Ancestors for the Purity of the Law The Rector himself allows the Masora to be before the Birth of Christ for saith he The Jews were Religious to Superstition as may be thought counting the very Letters of the Bible to preserve it intire Hereunto our Lord alludes in Mat. 5.18 p. 13. On the other Hand it 's certain we have not a pure Version of the LXX at this Day as all the Learned agree And Dr. Lightfoot affirms more than once that the Translation that goes under the name of the LXX was drest with more Craft than Sincerity by the first Interpreters and gives many Instances of it Vol. 1. p. 401 402 667. 806. and Vol 1. p. 1004 1005. It is unfair therefore in the Rector to depress the Authority of the Hebrew Copies in favour of the LXX which differs greatly from 'em and thereby tempt People to question the Purity of our authorized English Bibles which are all Translations of the Hebrew We agree with him in the next Head that 5. It is not corrupting the Word when we translate it into Vulgar Tongues p. 9. to p. 12. 6. It is not adding to the Word when a new Prophet arising delivers some further Messages to the Churches which are affixt to the Canon of the Scripture so all the following Books of Scripture notwithstanding my Text were added to the Canon unto the end of Revelations where for ought we yet know the Book is shut up p. 12. Here he seems uncertain whether we may not yet expect new Revelation and a new Canon of Scripture For our parts we are Content with that we 〈◊〉 and shall leave this Point to be concerted between the Rector and the Quakers 2. He shews Positively when we add or diminish from the Word 1. We diminish when we cast away any never so little Part of it p. 13. I leave it to Consideration Whether the Titles of the Psalms be not a little Part of the Word of God and own'd for such in our authorized Bibles But yet Interest has a Byass adds he instance M. he would say Justin Martyr has charged the Jews with this Practice Justin M. charges them with corrupting the LXX but not the Original Hebrew which he ought to have taken Notice of 2. Then we diminish when we reject whole Books as the Sadducees and Samaritans of old did all but the five Books of Moses p. 14. It is a Vulgar Error that the Sadducees and Samaritans rejected all the Old Testament but the five Books of Moses occasion'd by a Passage in Josephus That the Sadducees received the Law only Antiq. Jude XVIII 2. Where a he speaks of the written Law in Opposition to the Oral Law which the Pharisees rec●ived Thus he explains himself Antiq. Jude XIII 18. Dr. Lightfoot gives Instances of their owning other parts of Scripture Vol 2. p. 541 542. 3. We diminish from the Word when we lay it aside as not necessary or not the Supream Rule of Faith p. 14. This implies as if if there were some other at least subordinate Rules of Faith What these are he does not think fit to tell us We know no Rule of Divine Faith but the Holy Scriptures