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Excerpt from The Works of John Owen, D. D, Vol. 4
Secondly, This divine external revelation was originally, by vari ous ways (which we have elsewhere declared), given unto sundry persons immediately, partly for their own instruction and guidance in the knowledge of God and his will, and partly by their ministry to be communicated unto the church. So was it granted unto Enoch, the seventh from Adam, who thereon prophesied, to the warning and instruction of others, J ude 141, 15; and to Noah, who became thereby a preacher of righteousness, 2 Pet. Ii. 5; and to Abraham, who thereon commanded his children and household to keep the way of the Lord, Gen. Xviii. 19. And other instances of the like kind may be given, chap. Iv. 26, v. 29. And this course did God continue a long time, even from the first promise to the giving of the law, before any revelations were committed to writing, for the space of two thousand four hundred and sixty years; for so long a season did God enlighten the minds of men by supernatural, external, imme diate, occasional revelations. Sundry things may be observed of this divine dispensation; as.
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