A53678:1163
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
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.) There is Benedictio Potestativa; that is, such a Blessing as consists in an actual Efficacious Collation on, or Communication of the matter of the Blessing unto the Person Blessed. Thus God alone can Bless absolutely. He is the only Fountain of all Goodness, Spiritual, Temporal, Eternal, and so of the whole entire matter of Blessing, containing it all eminently and virtually in himself. And he alone can efficiently communicate it unto, or collate it on any others, which he doth as seemeth Good unto him, according to the Counsel of his own will. All will grant, that with Respect hereunto, the Apostle's Maxim is unquestionable, God is greater than Man. Yea, this kind of Blessing ariseth from, or dependeth solely on that Infinite Distance that is between the Being or Nature of God, and the Being ⟨p. 140⟩of all Creatures. This is Gods Blessing, [Greek or Hebrew]—an Addition of Good as the Jews call it; a real communication of Grace, Mercy, Privileges, or whatever the matter of the Blessing be.
(1.) There is Benedictio Potestativa; that is, such a Blessing as consists in an actual Efficacious Collation on, or Communication of the matter of the Blessing unto the Person Blessed. Thus God alone can Bless absolutely. He is the only Fountain of all Goodness, Spiritual, Temporal, Eternal, and so of the whole entire matter of Blessing, containing it all eminently and virtually in himself. And he alone can efficiently communicate it unto, or collate it on any others, which he doth as seemeth Good unto him, according to the Counsel of his own will. All will grant, that with Respect hereunto, the Apostle's Maxime is unquestionable, God is greater than Man. Yea, this kind of Blessing ariseth from, or dependeth solely on that Infinite Distance that is between the Being or Nature of God, and the Being ⟨p. 140⟩of all Creatures. This is Gods Blessing, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉—an Addition of Good as the Jews call it; a real communication of Grace, Mercy, Priviledges, or whatever the matter of the Blessing be.