A53678:1298
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.
1. As to the Persons unto whom it is so easy and pleasant; and it is so only unto them, who being weary and heavy laden do come unto Christ, that they may have Rest, and do learn of him; that is, unto convinced, humbled, converted Sinners that do Believe in him. Unto all other who on mere Convictions, or by other means do take it upon them, it proves an insupportable Burden, and that which ⟨p. 171⟩they cannot endure to be obliged unto. Hence the Generality of Men, although Professing the Christian Religion, are quickly weary of Evangelical worship, and do find out endless Inventions of their own, wherewith they are better satisfied in their Divine Services. Therefore have they multiplied Ceremonies, fond Superstitions, and down-right Idolatries, which they prefer before the Purity and Simplicity of the Worship of the Gospel, as it is in the Church of Rome. And the Reason hereof is, that Enmity which is in their Minds against the Spiritual things represented and exhibited in that Worship. For there being so near an Alliance between those things and this Worship, they that hate the one, cannot but despise the other. Men of unspiritual Minds cannot delight in Spiritual Worship. It is therefore
1. As to the Persons unto whom it is so easie and pleasant; and it is so only unto them, who being weary and heavy laden do come unto Christ, that they may have Rest, and do learn of him; that is, unto convinced, humbled, converted Sinners that do Believe in him. Unto all other who on meer Convictions, or by other means do take it upon them, it proves an insupportable Burden, and that which ⟨p. 171⟩they cannot endure to be obliged unto. Hence the Generality of Men, although Professing the Christian Religion, are quickly weary of Evangelical worship, and do find out endless Inventions of their own, wherewith they are better satisfied in their Divine Services. Therefore have they multiplyed Ceremonies, fond Superstitions, and down-right Idolatries, which they prefer before the Purity and Simplicity of the VVorship of the Gospel, as it is in the Church of Rome. And the Reason hereof is, that Enmity which is in their Minds against the Spiritual things represented and exhibited in that VVorship. For there being so near an Alliance between those things and this VVorship, they that hate the one, cannot but despise the other. Men of unspiritual Minds cannot delight in Spiritual VVorship. It is therefore