Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	church_n	divine_a	revelation_n	2,708	5	9.4498	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42783	The further vindication, &c. of Mr. Owen consider'd in a letter to a friend	Gipps, Thomas, d. 1709.	1699 (1699)	Wing G779A; ESTC R213345	19,437	28

hence as probable that Paul follow'd them in his 3d. to the Romans v. 13. c. and transcrib'd the Verses out of the then LXX O! but the Greek Fathers do not Comment on these Verses Supposing this for I have 'em not ready at hand nor leisure to examin them all the Reason may be either they Commented on them in other places or it was an innocent Omission or else 't is but a negative Argument and unconcluding But after all let us imagine the Three Verses have been interpolated this is no just Excuse of Mr. D. who accus'd us for foisting them in Why may not we do so as well as and after Paul And besides they are in the Latin Vulgar Version which was in use in Jerom's days and is still in good Credit with Mr. O. You may see more Reasons given to excuse the Church of England Serm. p. 7. R. R. p. 18. which I will not trouble you with Here I leave this part of the Controversie to the Judgment of any Man of Understanding whether Mr. O. has vindicated either Jerom or Mr. D. The Question about the Three Verses Psal 14. occasion'd a more general one concerning the LXX and the Hebrew Copies of the Old Testament The former are by my Adversaries said to have been corrupted and I granted it but withal affirm'd that so are the Hebrew also But Mr. O. undertakes to prove they were not corrupted before and in our Saviour's days Here I must premise because Mr. O. makes such an hideous Out-cry against the Rector as if he were about depriving the Church of the Scriptures and a Divine Knowledge of the reveal'd Will of God that my Argument is not intended neither looks that way at all as any fair Adversary would grant The Truths of Revelation are to be sought for not out of the Hebrew Text only nor out of the LXX only but out of both which lend their helping hand to one another together with all other Ancient Translations and those numerous Quotations of Scripture which we meet with in the Fathers And I humbly conceive nothing ministers more advantage unto Atheists than obstinately to contend that the Hebrew Text is not in the least corrupted and to strip us of all other means of correcting it Now Mr. O. attempts to evince his Opinion by Three Arguments I. That the Hebrew Bibles are de facto incorrupt II. That the Jews could not III. Would not corrupt them The first he confirms thus Because Christ never charg'd the Jews with corrupting them A. If the Hebrew Text was the same in Christ's as in our days which Mr. O. must acknowledg then it had been corrupted in Christ's time This appears afterwards Besides I retort his Reason thus the LXX was not corrupted in the Apostles days because they never charg'd that Version with any Corruptions as they would and ought to have done As Christ bids his Disciples to search the Scriptures the Hebrew Copy So St. Paul commends the Bereans that they searched the Scriptures and Timothy that by his Mother and Grandmother he had been train'd up in the Knowledge of the Scriptures viz. in the LXX for all these were either Gentiles or Gentile Proselytes or Hellenistical Jews and therefore us'd the LXX When Origen and Jerom speak thus That most of the allegations made by Christ and his Apostles out of the Old Testament are still there they plainly enough confess that some are not and consequently there must have been a corruption of the Old Scriptures according to these Fathers On the other hand I●ll give you a better Argument in proof of their Corruption viz. because they had been corrupted before Ezra's time who say most of the Fathers corrected the Errors that had crept in afore-time and amended them as the Hebrews report Synop. in Ez. ● Now tell me is it not much more probable that they were somewhat corrupted between Ezra and Christ Had God a greater care of the Scriptures under the second Temple than under the first when Prophets were common among them But of this more by and by 2. Mr. O. in his Harangue here insinuates that I affirm an Vniversal Corruption of the Hebrew Copies but 't is Mr. O's own fancy not mine and besides he talks very highly of Providence even as if there lay an absolute engagement on God either not to suffer any Corruption or miraculously to discover it A Why then has Providence permitted so many various Readings in the New Testament and why has not God by some extraordinary means told us whether the latter Period 1 Jo. 2. 23. was written by Divine Inspiration or added by some Transcriber The summ is Providence has taken care that all the material necessary and Essential Doctrines of Religion are still abundantly preserved in the Scriptures and no false Doctrines therein establish'd which I take to be true both of the Hebrew the LXX and the New Testament But still in all Ages before Printing Corruptions of other kinds crept in and God for Reasons best known to his Wisdom has permitted it 3. It must be granted a pious Jew would not purposely Corrupt the Hebrew Text but others would That very Talmudical Tale that one Solomon endeavour'd to root Jod out of the Text shews that some Jews would have Corrupted the Hebrew Text. You see how unconcluding Mr. O's Arguments are In a word that the Jews would have corrupted the Word of God in the Prophesies pointing at Jesus Christ is undeniably true from Justin Martyr his Dialogue wherein he chargeth them with it It must be allow'd thence that they had inclination enough to attempt it or else the Martyr could in no wise be excused whether they were successful is to be examin'd in the next place and 1. From the Testimony of Justin and in answer to Mr. O. I affirm 1. That Justin Martyr did understand both the Hebrew and Syriac Languages and so doubtless was acquainted with the Hebrew Bible For in Apology 2d He calls himself the Son of Priscus Bacchius born or come from Flavia Neapolis in the Syrian Palestine Accordingly I find him playing the Critic upon the Etymology of Satanas Dialog p. 331. deriving it from the Jewish and Syrian Tongue Sata signifying Apostata Nas Serpens Yea Mr. O's instance proves him skill'd in the Hebrew nor was he mistaken when he affirm'd that Israel imported homo vincens virtutem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Virtue Fortitude one of the great Attributes of God which Mr. O's Novice did not consider And God oft in Scripture makes an Attribute to be as it were his proper Name 1 Sam. 15. 29. The strength of Israel cannot lye that is God cannot So Jacob as a Prince had power with Fortitude it self that is with God And that Justin by Virtue meant no other than God may be seen Dial. p. 285. where he so reads the place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. It is not then the LXX only us'd in the Synagogues that