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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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And these considerations of the Nature of Repentance from dead works as it is initiating, may give us some direction in that necessary enquiry concerning our own personal Interest in it.
And these confiderations of the Nature of Repentance from dead works as it is initiating, may give us some direction in that necessary enquiry concerning our own personal Interest in it.
Now there are several ways whereby men miss their Duty with respect unto this first Principle, and thereby ruin their Souls Eternally.
Now there are several ways whereby men miss their Duty with respect unto this first Principle, and thereby ruine their Souls Eternally.
(1) Some utterly despise it. Such are the presumptuous Sinners mentioned, Deut. 29. 19, 20. As they disregard the Curse of the Law, so they do also the Promise of the Gospel, as unto any Repentance or Relinquishment of Sin with respect unto them. Such Folly and brutish Foolishness possesseth the minds of multitudes, that they will have some expectation of benefit by the Gospel, and will give it an outward compliance, but will not touch on the very first thing which it indispensably requireth of all that intend any concernment in it. It were easy to open and aggravate this deplorable folly; but I must not stay on these things.
(1) Some utterly despise it. Such are the presumptuous Sinners mentioned, Deut. 29. 19, 20. As they disregard the Curse of the Law, so they do also the Promise of the Gospel, as unto any Repentance or Relinquishment of Sin with respect unto them. Such Folly and bruitish Foolishness possesseth the minds of multitudes, that they will have some expectation of benefit by the Gospel, and will give it an outward compliance, but will not touch on the very first thing which it indispensibly requireth of all that intend any concernment in it. It were easie to open and aggravate this deplorable folly; but I must not stay on these things.