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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90280	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.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1659 (1659)	Wing O784; Thomason E1866_1; Thomason E1866_1*; ESTC R203092	144,024	386

that Number Sect. 14. This I say is the summe of this Doctrine as it is delivered unto us in the Scripture Here Reason is entangled yet after a while finds evidently that unlesse this be embraced all other things wherein it hath to do with God will not be of value to the soule this will quickly be made to appeare Or all that Communion which is here between God and man founded on the Revelation of his mind and will unto him which makes way for his Enjoyment in Glory there are these two parts 1 Gods gratious Communication of his Love Goodnesse c. with the fruits of them unto man 2. The obedience of man unto God in a way of Gratitude for that Love according to the mind and will of God revealed to him These two comprise the whole of the entercourse between God and man Now when the mind of man is exercised about these things he finds at last that they are so wrapped up in the Doctrine of the Trinity that without the beliefe receiving and acceptance of it it is utterly impossible that any interest in them should be obteined or preserved Sect. 15. For the first or the Communication of God unto us in a Way of Love and Goodnesse it is wholly founded upon and enwrapped in this Truth both as to the eternall Spring and actuall Execution of it A few instances will evince this Assertion The Eternall fountaine of all Grace flowing from Love and Goodnesse lies in Gods Election or Predestination This being an Act of Gods Will cannot be apprehended but as an eternall act of his Wisdome or Word also All the eternall thoughts of it's pursuit lye in the Covenant that was betweene the Father and the Son as to the Son 's undrtaking to execute that Purpose of his This I have at large elsewhere declared Take away then the doctrine of the Trinity and both these are gone There can be no purpose of Grace by the Father in the son no Covenant for the putting of that purpose in Execution and so the foundation of all fruits of Love Goodnesse is lost to the soule Sect. 16. As to the Execution of this Purpose with the actuall dispensation of the fruits of Grace and Goodnesse unto us it lyes wholely in the unspeakable Condescention of the Son unto Incarnation with what ensued thereon The Incarnation of the Eternall Word by the Power of the Holy Ghost is the bottome of our Participation of Grace Without it it was absolutely impossible that man should be made partake● of the favour of God Now this enwraps the whole Doctrine of the Trinity in it's bosome nor can once be apprehended without it's Acknowledgment Deny the Trinity and all this meanes of the Communication of Grace with the whole of the satisfaction and Righteousnesse of Christ falls to the Ground Every Tittle of it speakes this Truth And they who deny the one reject the other Sect. 17. Our actuall Participation of the fruits of this Grace is by the Holy Ghost We cannot our selves seize on them nor bring them home to our owne soules The impossibility hereof I cannot now stay to manifest Now whence is this Holy Ghost Is he not sent from the Father by the Son Can we entertaine any thought of his effectuall working in us and upon us but it includes this whole Doctrine They therefore who deny the Trinity deny the Efficacy of it's operation also Sect. 18. So it is as to our Obedience unto God whereby the Communion betweene God and man is compleated Although the formall object of Divine worship be the nature of God and the Persons are not worshipped as Persons distinct but as they are each of them God yet as God they are every one of them distinctly to be worshipped So is it as to our faith our Love our thanksgiving all our Obedience as I have abundantly demonstrated in my Treatise of distinct communion with the Father in Love the Son in Grace and the Holy Ghost in the Priviledges of the Gospell Thus without the Acknowledgment of this Truth none of that Obedience which God requireth at our hands can in a due manner be performed Sect. 19. Hence the scripture speakes not of any thing betweene God and us but what is founded on this Account The Father worketh the Son worketh and the Holy Ghost worketh The Father worketh not but by the Son and his spirit The Son Spirit work not but from the Father The Father Glorifieth the Son the Son Glorifieth the Father and the Holy Ghost glorifieth them both Before the foundation of the world the Son was with the Father and rejoyced in his peculiar worke for the Redemption of mankind At the Creation the Father made all things but by the Son and the Power of the Spirit In Redemption the Father sends the Son the Son by his owne condescention undertakes the worke and is incarnate by the Holy Ghost The Father as was said communicates his love and all the fruites of it unto us by the Son as the Holy Ghost doth the merrits and fruits of the mediation of the Son The Father is not knowne nor worshipped but by and in the Son Nor Father or Son but by the Holy Ghost c. Sect. 20. Upon this discovery the soule that was before startled at the Doctrine in the notion of it is fully convinced that all the satisfaction it hath sought after in it's seeking unto God is utterly lost if this be not admitted There is neither any foundation left of the communication of love to him nor meanes of returning Obedience unto God Besides all the things that he hath been enquiring after appeare on this account in their Glory beauty reality unto him so that that which most staggerd him at first in the receiving of the Truth because of it's deep mysterious glory doth now most confirme him in the embracing of it because of its necessity Power and heavenly Excellency Sect. 21. And this is one Argument of the Many belonging to the things of the Scripture that upon the Grounds before mentioned hath in it as to my sense and Apprehension an Evidence of Conviction not to be withstood Sect. 22. Another consideration of the like Efficacy may be taken from a briefe veiw of the whole Scripture with the designe of it The consent of parts or Harmony of the scripture in it's selfe and every part of it with each other and with the whole is commonly pleaded as an Evidence of it's divine Originall Thus much certainly it doth evince beyond all possible contradiction that the whole proceedeth from one and the same principle hath the same Authout and He wise discerning able to comprehend the whole compasse of what he intended to deliver and reveale Otherwise or by any other that onenesse of Spirit designe and ayme in unspeakable variety and diversity of meanes of it's delivery that absolute correspondency of it to it's selfe and distance from any thing else could not have been attained