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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. As it is stated, it is our humble mournful walking with God under a sense of Sin, continually manifesting its self in our Natures and Infirmities. And the Acts of this Repentance in us, are of two sorts: (1) Direct and immediate; (2) Consequential and dependant. The former may be referred unto two Heads. (1) Confession. (2) Humiliation. These a truly penitent Soul will be continually exercised in. He whose Heart is so lifted up on any pretence, as not to abide in the constant exercise of these acts of Repentance, is one whom the Soul of God hath no delight in. The other which are immediate acts of Faith, but inseparable from these, are (1) Supplications for the Pardon of Sin, (2) Diligent watchfulness against Sin. It is evident how great a share of our walking with God consists in these things, which yet I must not enlarge upon.
2. This continued Repentance is Occasional when it is heightened unto a singular solemnity. And these occasions may be referred unto three heads:
2. This continued Repentance is Occasional when it is heightned unto a singular solemnity. And these occasions may be referred unto three heads:
(1) A Personal surprisal into any great actual Sin. Such an occasion is not to be passed over with the ordinary actings of Repentance. David upon his fall, brings his renewed Repentance into that solemnity as if it had been his first Conversion to God. On that account he deduceth his personal Sins from the Sin of his Nature, Psal. 51. 5. besides many other circumstances whereby he gave it an extraordinary Solemnity. So Peter ⟨p. 18⟩