A53678:1257
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
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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, Rom. 10. 3. And we may easily apprehend how great a snare this proved unto them. For there is in corrupted Nature such an Opposition and Enmity unto this Righteousness of God in Christ, and the dictates of the Law are so riveted in the Minds of Men by Nature, that now after the full and clear Declaration of it in the Gospel, Men are shifting a thousand ways to set up a Righteousness of their own in the room of it. How strong then must the same Inclination be in them, who had nothing but the Law to Guide them, wherein this Righteousness was wrapped up under many Veils and Coverings. Here therefore at the last, the Body of the People lost themselves, and continue unto this day under the Curse of that Law, which they hoped would Justify and Save them.
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 Shipwracked their Eternal Condition, ver. 32, 33. For whilst they went about to establish their own Righteousness, they submitted not unto the Righteousness of God, Rom. 10. 3. And we may easily apprehend how great a snare this proved unto them. For there is in corrupted Nature such an Opposition and Enmity unto this Righteousness of God in Christ, and the dictates of the Law are so riveted in the Minds of Men by Nature, that now after the full and clear Declaration of it in the Gospel, Men are shifting a thousand ways to set up a Righteousness of their own in the room of it. How strong then must the same Inclination be in them, who had nothing but the Law to Guide them, wherein this Righteousness was wrapt up under many Veils and Coverings. Here therefore at the last, the Body of the People lost themselves, and continue unto this day under the Curse of that Law, which they hoped would Justifie and Save them.