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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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(1) Upon the first Communication of Gospel Light unto us by the Holy Ghost. Christ sends him to convince us of Sin and Righteousness and Judgement, Joh. 16. 8. And if upon the first participation of Light and Conviction by the Holy Ghost, this Repentance is not wrought in us, it is to be feared that we have missed our Season. And so it falls out with many. They receive Light and Convictions but use them unto other ends. They put them it may be upon a Profession and a Relinquishment of some ways, and parties of men, but farther they use them not. Their first proper end is to work our own Souls unto saving Repentance, and if we miss their first Impressions, their power and efficacy for that end is hardly recoverable.
(2) It never fails on the first saving view of Jesus Christ as crucified, Zech. 12. 10. It is impossible that any one should have a saving view of Christ crucified, and not be savingly humbled for Sin. And there is no one single Trial of our Faith in Christ whether it be genuine or no, that is more natural than this; What have been the effects of it, as to Humiliation and Repentance? Where these ensue not upon what we account our Believing, there we have not had a saving view of Christ crucified.
(2) It never fails on the first saving view of Iesus Christ as crucified, Zech. 12. 10. It is impossible that any one should have a saving view of Christ crucified, and not be savingly humbled for Sin. And there is no one single Trial of our Faith in Christ whether it be genuine or no, that is more natural than this; What have been the effects of it, as to Humiliation and Repentance? Where these ensue not upon what we account our Believing, there we have not had a saving view of Christ crucified.