The Bibliology
of John Owen (1616-1683):
The sum of
what I am pleading for, …, is,
That as the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were immediately
and entirely given out by God himself, his mind being in them represented unto
us without the least interveniency of such mediums and ways as are capable of giving
change or alteration to the least iota or syllable; so, by his good and
merciful providential dispensation, in his love to his word and church, his
whole word, as first given out by him, is preserved unto us entire in the
original languages; where, shining in its own beauty and lustre (as also in all
translations, so far as they faithfully represent the originals), it manifests
and evidences unto the consciences of men, without other foreign help or
assistance, its divine original and authority (Works, 16, 349-50).
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