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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.
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. Repentance is twofold; (1) Initial, (2) Continued in our whole course; and our Enquiry is to be after our Interest in both of them. The former is that whose general Nature we have before described, which is the door of entrance into a Gospel state, or a Condition of Acceptance with God in and through Christ. And concerning it we may observe sundry things.
1. That as to the Properties of it; it is,
(1) Solemn; a Duty that in all its circumstances is to be fixed and stated. It is not to be mixed only with other Duties, but we are to set our selves on purpose, and engage our selves singularly unto it. I will not say, this is so essential unto it, that he can in no sense be said sincerely to have repented, who hath not separately and distinctly been exercised herein for some season; yet I will say, that the Repentance of such a one will scarce be ever well cleared up unto his own Soul. When the Spirit of Grace is poured out on men, they shall mourn apart, Zach. 12. 12, 13, 14. That is, they shall peculiarly and solemnly separate themselves to the right discharge of this Duty between God and their Souls. And those who have hitherto neglected it, or failed herein, may be advised solemnly to address themselves unto it, whatever hopes they may have, that they have been carried through it already. There is no loss of Time, Grace, nor Comfort, in the solemn Renovation of initial Repentance.