Note 265 — Chapter XI
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The spirit in which Owen composed this treatise has often been misrepresented. It is probable that some who have condemned have never read it. The work on the Divine Original Authority, Self-evidencing Light and Power of the Scriptures—to which the treatise is an appendix—is also worth studying in connexion with theological controversies at the present day. The third chapter is very remarkable, and the last paragraph moves in a direction which Owen's disciples now would be very unwilling to follow. It shews how the habits of thought alter even in the same school, and should teach us all a lesson of charity.