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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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(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.
(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 expresly with the Israelites themselves, Psal. 78. 34, 35, 36, 37. And this kind of Repentance ruines 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.
(3) Some repent from dead works in some sense, but they repent not off them. They will come through the Power of their Convictions to a Relinquishment of many of their old Sins, as Herod did upon the Preaching of John Baptist, but are never truly and savingly humbled for Sin absolutely. Their Lives are changed, but their Hearts are not renewed. And their renunciation of Sin is always partial, whereof before. There are many other ways whereby men deceive their Souls in this matter, which I must not now insist upon.