should, according to Owen, be described and explained. That the Bible, like all messages and revelations from God, has this quality is proved by the fact that it is always the duty of those to whom any part of the written Word comes to receive and obey it, and failure to do this is always guilty. (For proof of this, Owen cities, among other passages, Deut. 31:11–13; Luke 16:31; 2 Peter 1:16–21). This brings us to our fourth topic: the establishing of faith in