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A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…
A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews viz, on the sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, and tenth chapters : wherein together with the explication of the text and context, the priesthood of Christ ... are declared, explained and confirmed : as also, the pleas of the Jews for the continuance and perpetuity of their legal worship, with the doctrine of the principal writers of the Socinians about these things, are examined and disproved / by J. Owen ...
London: printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1680
Exegesis of chapter 7 › Exegesis of verses 1, 2, 3: Ver. 1, 2, 3.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, There was of old a Paternal Benediction that had its Rise in an especial Warranty, and was accompanied with a Spirit of Prophecy. This consisted in a certain Prediction and Declaration of future Events, whereby those so Blessed were Infallibly and Indispensably stated in a Right unto them. So Noah blessed Shem and Japheth; Isaac blessed Jacob, Jacob all his Sons. Herein God gave unto some Parents the Honour of a Power to bequeath unto their Posterity, those Good things which he Graciously intended to bestow on them. This kind of blessing is now absolutely ceased, for it wholly respected the coming of Christ in the Flesh with those other things which conduced thereunto.
Secondly, There was of old a Paternal Benediction that had its Rise in an especial Warranty, and was accompanied with a Spirit of Prophecy. This consisted in a certain Praediction and Declaration of future Events, whereby those so Blessed were Infallibly and Indispensibly stated in a Right unto them. So Noah blessed Shem and Japhet; Isaac blessed Jacob, Jacob all his Sons. Herein God gave unto some Parents the Honour of a Power to bequeath unto their Posterity, those Good things which he Graciously intended to bestow on them. This kind of blessing is now absolutely ceased, for it wholly respected the coming of Christ in the Flesh with those other things which conduced thereunto.
It were well if instead of all these several ways of Blessing, many Parents did not Curse their Children. Some upon their provocations have desperately and Profanely imprecated Curses upon them; and we have known Instances wherein God hath eminently revenged their Impiety by his Judgments inflicted on Parents and Children both. Some entail a Curse upon them, by Oppressions and Falsehood, in getting their Estates, or in a Flagitious course of Life, which God will Revenge to the third Generation. But most do Curse them with the Cursed Example of their Conversation, initiating them almost from the Cradle in a course of Sin and Wickedness.
It were well if instead of all these several ways of Blessing, many Parents did not Curse their Children. Some upon their provocations have desperately and Profanely imprecated Curses upon them; and we have known Instances wherein God hath eminently revenged their Impiety by his Judgments inflicted on Parents and Children both. Some entail a Curse upon them, by Oppressions and Falshood, in getting their Estates, or in a Flagitious course of Life, which God will Revenge to the third Generation. But most do Curse them with the Cursed Example of their Conversation, initiating them almost from the Cradle in a course of Sin and Wickedness.