A53678:1256
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.
2. They had this Righteousness really and as to the Benefits of it, but had it not in that Clearness and Evidence of its Nature, Cause, and Effects, as it is now revealed in the Gospel. Hence although their Interest in it was sufficient to secure their Eternal Concernments, yet they had it not in such a way as was required unto this [Greek or Hebrew] in this Life. For we know how great a Portion of the perfect state of the Gospel, consists in a clear Apprehension, that Christ is, and how he is our Righteousness, whereon the main of our present Comforts do depend. The great Enquiry of the Souls of Men is how they may have a Righteousness before God. And the clear discovery of the causes of it, of the way and manner how we are made partakers of it, is a great part of the Perfection of the Gospel state.
2. They had this Righteousness really and as to the Benefits of it, but had it not in that Clearness and Evidence of its Nature, Cause, and Effects, as it is now revealed in the Gospel. Hence although their Interest in it was sufficient to secure their Eternal Concernments, yet they had it not in such a way as was required unto this 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in this Life. For we know how great a Portion of the perfect state of the Gospel, consists in a clear Apprehension, that Christ is, and how he is our Righteousness, whereon the main of our present Comforts do depend. The great Enquiry of the Souls of Men is how they may have a Righteousness before God. And the clear discovery of the causes of it, of the way and manner how we are made partakers of it, is a great part of the Perfection of the Gospelstate.
3. It was so obscurely represented unto them, as that the Law arose up in a competition with it, or rather against it, in the minds of the Generality of the People. They looked for Righteousness as it were by the works of the Law, Rom. 9. 32. and on this Rock of Offence, this stumbling-stone, they Shipwrecked their Eternal Condition, ver. 32, 33. For whilst they went about to establish their own Righteousness, they submitted not unto the Righteousness of God,