IV. — General premises— Opinions prejudicial to the authority of the originals in the Prolegomena enumerated — The just consequences of ttiese premises — Others engaged in these opinions— Of Cappellus— Of Origen, Ximenes, Arias Montanus' editions of the Bible, ..... 367
V. — The original of the points proposed to consideration in particular — The im- portance of the points to the right understanding of the Scripture — The testimony of Morinus, .Junius, Johannes I.saac, Cevallerius, and others— The use made by the Papists of the opinion of the novelty of the points — The importance of the points further manifested — The extreme danger of making the Hebrew punctuation arbitrary — That danger evinced by instance — No relief against that danger on the grounds of the opinion con- sidered— The authors of the Hebrew punctuation according to the Pro- legomena; who and what— Morinus' folly — Tne improbahility of this pretence— The state of the Jews, the supposed inventors of the points, after the destruction of the temple — Two attempts made by them to re- store their religion : the first under Barchochab, with its issue ; the second under R. Judah, with its issue — The rise and foundation of tlie Tal- muds — The state of the Jews upon and after the writing of the Talmuds — Their rancour against Christ —Who the Tiberian Masoretes were, that are the supposed autliors of the Hebrew punctuation ; their description — That figment rejected— The late testimony of Dr Ligiitfoot to this pur- pose— Tlie rise of the opinion of the novelty of the points — Of Elias Le- vita — The value of his testimony in this case— OF the validity of the tes- timony of the Jewish Rabbins— Some considerations about the antiquity of the points : the first, from the nature of the punctuation itself, in refer- ence unto grammatical rules ; [the second,] from the Chaldee paraphrase, and integrity of the Scripture as now pointed, .... 370
VI. — Argumi nts for the novelty of the Hebrew points proposed to consideration — The argument from the Samaritan letters considered and answered— Of the copy of the law preserved in the synagogues without points— The tes- timony of Elias Levita and Aben Ezra considered— Of the silence of the Mishna, 'J'almud, and Gemara, about the points— Of the Keri and Ketib— Of the number of the points— Of the ancient translations, Greek, Chaldee, Syriac— Of Jerome — Tlie new argument of Morinus in this cause — The conclusion, about the necessity of the points, .... 388
VII. —Of the a"P3l ^"p, their nature and original— The difference is in the conso- nants—Morinus' vain charge on Arias Montanus— The senses of both consistent— Of the great congregation — The spring and rise of these va- rious readings — The judgment of the Prolegomena about them — Their order given twice over in the Appendix — The rise assigned to them con- sidered— Of Cappellus, his opinion, and the danger of it. . . 401
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CONTENTS.
Chap. VIII.-
-Of gathering various lections by the help of translations — The proper use
aiid benefit of translations — Their new pretended use — The state of the originals on this new pretence — Of the remedj' tendered to the relief of that state — No copies of old differing in the least from those we now en- joy, inferred from the testimony of our Saviour — No testimony, new or old, to that purpose — Requisites unto good translations — Of the transla- tions in the Biblia Polyglotta — Of the Arabic— Of the Syriac— Of the Samaritan Pentateuch— Of the Chaldee Paraphrase — Of the Vulgar Latin — Of the Septuagint— Of the translations of the New Testament— Of the Persian — Of the Ethiopian — The value of these translations as to the work in hand — Of the supposition of gross corruption in the originals — Of va- rious lections out of Grotius — Of the Appendix in general,
PRO SACRIS SCPJPTURTS EXERCITATIONES ADYERSUS FANATICOS.
Prefatory Note by the Editor, .....
Ad lectorem admonitio, ......
Questio I. — An sacra Scriptura sit ac vere dicatur verbum Dei ?
Exercit. II. — De Scripturarum interpretatione,
Exercit. III. — De perfectione Scripturae, ....
Exercit. IV.— De lumine interno, .....
POEMA.
Prefatory Note by the Editor,
Dedication,
Ad Protectorem,
ORATIONES VL
Prefatory Note by the Editor
Oratio I.
Oratio II.
Oratio III.
Oratio IV.
Oratio V.
Oratio VI.
INDICES.
I. — Index to the Life of Owen, ....... 517
II.— Index to the Notes by the Editor, ...... 520
III. — Index to the Works of Owen, according to the arrangement of the volumes
iu the present edition, ....... 629
IV.— Index to the ^V'orks of Owen in their alphabetical order — Lii:.t of Owen's
Prefaces to Works of other Authors, ..... 531
V. — Index to Principal Subjects and Occasional Topics, . . ■ 533
VI. — Index to the Principal Words and Phrases in other Languages Cited or Ex- plained : — 1. Hebi'cw, Chaldee, or Rabbinical; 2. Greek ; 3. Latin, . 578 VII. — Index to Passages of Scripture Explained, ..... 584
VIII. — Index of References to Authors, Opinions, Councils, and Sayings, • 590
THE TRUE NATURE
A GOSPEL CHUECH AND ITS GOYERNMENT.
[THE SECOND PART.]
WHEREIN THESE FOLLOWING PAKTICULARS ARE DISTINCTLY HANDLED : —