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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33290	The divine authority of the Holy Scriptures asserted in two discourses the former shewing the nature and extent of the inspiration vouchsaf't by the Holy Ghost to the penmen of the Scriptures ... : the latter shewing the divine authority of the vowels and accents in the Hebrew text ... in a discourse concerning the division of the Bible into chapters and verses : to which is added, A discourse concerning the testimony of the Spirit on Rom. 8. 16. / by Sam. Clark ...	Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701.	1699 (1699)	Wing C4490; Wing C4991_CANCELLED; ESTC R14562	28,221	56

THE Divine Authority OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Asserted in Two DISCOURSES The former shewing The Nature and Extent of the Inspiration vouchsaf't by the Holy Ghost to the Penmen of the Scriptures and the distinct share of each therein The latter shewing the Divine Authority of the Vowels and Accents in the Hebrew Text by new and intrinsick Arguments in a Discourse concerning the Division of the Bible into Chapters and Verses To which is added A Discourse concerning the Testimony of the Spirit on Rom. 8.16 By SAM CLARK M. A. LONDON Printed for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard 1699. THE PREFACE WHAT Assaults have bin made of late Years upon the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures is not unknown to those that think it their concern to attend unto such matters This was done more closely and covertly divers Years ago by F. Simon in his Critical History of the Old Testament In reference to which that very Learned and Judicious Divine Mr. W. Lorimer hath translated and publisht A Vindication of the five Books of Moses with an Appendix of his own in Answer to F. Simon 's Exceptions A more open Attack was made upon it by the Author of the five Letters These were first answer'd among us by Mr. Louth an ingenious Member of the famous University of Oxford I was much pleas'd with the Candour of a passage in his Preface In the last place saith he I must desire of those who think I have not carried the Inspiration of the Scriptures so high as I ought not to be angry with me or uncharitably to censure me as if I design'd to betray the Cause which I pretend to maintain but if they are not satisfied with my performance to undertake the Argument themselves and do Justice to so good a Cause I assure them I shall heartily wish 'em Success in their Undertaking and shall be glad if my Arguments appear weak because their's are stronger for I can do nothing against the Truth but for the Truth p. 16. After him comes Mr. La Mothe who takes notice of that passage and makes use of it as an Invitation to his Undertaking and withal adds If my Example should excite some others to write upon the same Subject the Publick will be oblig'd to me for it In that Discourse of his he hath fully and satisfactorily Vindicated the Divine Inspiration of the Books of the New Testament so that those Letters may be dismiss'd from any further Consideration being solidly and fully answer'd But as to what Mr. La Mothe offers concerning the Nature of that Inspiration I am not so well satisfied It seemed to me very defective which excited me to seek after further satisfaction Whereupon I perused all those Authors within the compass of my Curta supellex wherein I might reasonably expect to have met with something that might have quench'd my Thirst but returned with my Pitcher empty Thereupon I fell a plowing with my own Heifer and that which follows is the Crop which the Reader may reap if he thinks it worth while to bestow so much pains upon it And this I intend only as Cumulative to what is deliver'd by Mr. Louth and La Mothe Besides this late debate there has bin another Controversy of longer standing which has bin hotly canvast and contested pro and con between the most learned Pens on both sides which has a great influence upon the divine Authority of the holy Scriptures also viz. about the Original of the Vowels and Accents in the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament Much confidence or according to modish word Assurance has bin show'd on both sides This point was studied by me when I was in the University above fifty Years ago And since then I have bin looking into what I met with on that subject Of late I have bestow'd some thoughts upon it upon this occasion Being desired to draw up A brief Concordance to be added to the third Edition of Mr. Pool's Annotations I intended to Preface it with an Account of the Division of the Bible into Chapters and Verses the foundation of all exact Concordances and without which they cannot but be very lame and defective Thereupon making Enquiry into the Original of the Chapters and Verses in the Old Testament it naturally led me into that weighty Controversy about the Authority of the Points in the Hebrew Text which occasion'd it's growth into a larger bulk than was fit for a Preface whereupon I was feign to slip it off and separate it from that Root and so it grew up into a distinct Discourse by it self wherein the Reader will meet with something not to be found else where for I would not trouble the World with old matters new vamp't up When this Discourse was first conceived and brought forth which was some Years ago as they say the Eagle tries her young ones by exposing 'em to the light of the Sun so being desirous that the Truth and Soundness of my Notion might be thorowly tried I sent it to some learned Persons for their Opinion about it I found that they had a different apprehension of the Controversy from mine and made some slight Objections against my judgment of it but none of 'em did attempt any Answer to any of my Arguments or endeavour in the least to overthrow the foundation of my Building viz. The Connection between the Verses Accents and Vowels which confirmed me in my Opinion that it is built upon good Grounds because the most learned Persons that have perused it have so little to object against it The most considerable Objection made by a very learned judicious Divine was not so much against my Opinion it self as that it is not sufficiently proved that all the Hebrew Accents are and must be coetaneous with the Verses and Language I grant that my Argument does not directly prove that All the Accents are Coevous with the Vowels but only Athnach and Silluk But then if it be consider'd that they all have a dependance one upon another i. e. the Duces and Subditi or Ministri upon the Reges then the proving of some of 'em to be coetaneous with the Vowels and Verses bids fair for the proof of 'em all The Usefulness of the Accents and their intimate connection with and dependance one upon another is very fully shewed of late by Mr. Walter Cross in his Taghmical Art as he calls it tho' I should think according to the Rules and Analogy of Grammar it should rather be called the Tangnamical Art as from Talmud Talmudical for the Noun Substantive is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tangnam an Accent which very well deserves the diligent Study of all those that desire to be exact in the Hebrew Tongue and consequently in the understanding of the Scriptures of the Old Testament only one great Disaster has befallen it which probably might come to pass by his Illness or Death that it is very false Printed It has bin suggested to