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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.
1. By Tithes is understood either the express Law of Tithing, or paying the Tenth of all our Substance and of the whole Increase of the Earth; or only the dedicating of a certain Portion of what we have unto the Uses of the Worship and Service of God. If this latter be intended, it is with me past all Doubt and Question, that a bountiful part of our Enjoyments is to be separated unto the Use and Service of the Worship of God, particularly unto the comfortable and honourable Supportment of them that Labour in the Ministry. And it is no small part of that Confusion which we suffer under, that Christians being in all places compelled to pay the Tenth by Civil Laws unto some or other whether they will or no, are either discouraged, or disenabled, or think themselves discharged from doing that which God certainly requireth at their hands in a way of Duty. However this will be no Excuse for any, for generally they have yet left unto them that whereby they may discharge their Duty in an acceptable manner. And I cannot but wonder how some Men can satisfy their Consciences in this Matter, in such Circumstances as I shall not now name.
1. By Tithes is understood either the express Law of Tithing, or paying the Tenth of all our Substance and of the whole Increase of the Earth; or only the dedicating of a certain Portion of what we have unto the Uses of the Worship and Service of God. If this latter be intended, it is with me past all Doubt and Question, that a bountiful part of our Enjoyments is to be separated unto the Use and Service of the Worship of God, particularly unto the comfortable and honourable Supportment of them that Labour in the Ministry. And it is no small part of that Confusion which we suffer under, that Christians being in all places compelled to pay the Tenth by Civil Laws unto some or other whether they will or no, are either discouraged, or disenabled, or think themselves discharged from doing that which God certainly requireth at their hands in a way of Duty. However this will be no Excuse for any, for generally they have yet left unto them that whereby they may discharge their Duty in an acceptable manner. And I cannot but wonder how some Men can satisfie their Consciences in this Matter, in such Circumstances as I shall not now name.