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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 6 › Exegesis of verses 1, 2: Verse 1, 2.
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(3) An actual Relinquishment of all sins in the course of our walking before God. And hereunto is required (1) not an absolute freedom from all Sin, for there is no man living who doth good and sinneth not. (2) No absolute and precise deliverance even from great Sins, whereinto the Soul may be surprised by the Power of Temptations. Examples to the contrary abound in the Scripture. But yet such Sins, when any is overtaken with them, ought (1) to put the Sinner upon a severe enquiry whether his Repentance were sincere and saving. For where it is, usually the Soul is preserved from such Falls. 2 Pet. 1. 10. And (2) put him upon the renewing his Repentance, with the same Care, Diligence, Sorrow and Humiliation as at the first. But (1) it is required that this property of Repentance be prevalent against the common sins of the world, mens old Sins which they lived in before their Conversion. Those Sins which are expressly declared in the Gospel to be inconsistent with the Profession, Ends and Glory of it, it wholly excludes. 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. 2 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Joh. 3. 14, 15. And (2) against a course in any Sin or Sins, either spiritual or fleshly, internal or external. 1 Joh. 3. 9. Rom. 6. 2. (3) For the most part against all outward Sins in the course of our Conversation in the world, in which things our Sincerity or Perfection is exercised. And these things were necessary to be touched on, to manifest the Nature of this first Principle wherein men are to be instructed.
(3) An actual Relinquishment of all sins in the course of our walking before God. And hereunto is required (1) not an absolute freedom from all Sin, for there is no man living who doth good and sinneth not. (2) No absolute and precise deliverance even from great Sins, whereinto the Soul may be surprized by the Power of Temptations. Examples to the contrary abound in the Scripture. But yet such Sins, when any is overtaken with them, ought (1) to put the Sinner upon a severe enquiry whether his Repentance were sincere and saving. For where it is, usually the Soul is preserved from such Falls.