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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) 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.
(2) Some will repent in their dead works but not from them. That is, upon Convictions, Afflictions, Dangers, they will be troubled for their Sins, make confession of them, be grieved that they have contracted such guilt and danger, with Resolutions to forgo them. But yet they will abide in their Sins and dead works still. So Pharaoh more than once repented him in his Sins, but never had Repentance from them. And so it was expressly with the Israelites themselves, Psal. 78. 34, 35, 36, 37. And this kind of Repentance ruins not fewer Souls than the former total contempt of it. There are not a few unto whom this kind of Repentance stands in the same stead all their days, as Confession and Absolution doth to the Papists, it gives them present ease, that they may return to their former Sins.