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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
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.
THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
I have so fully in my former Discourses on this subject, declared the general design, scope and end of this Epistle, the proper way and means of its Interpretation, with the method of the present Exposition, which is the same throughout, that I shall not at all here detain the Reader with a renewed Declaration of any of them. Only some few things which immediately concern that part of the Exposition which is now presented unto him, and my labour therein, may be mentioned (as I suppose) unto some usefulness.
I have so fully in my former Discourses on this subject, declared the general design, scope and end of this Epistle, the proper way and means of its Interpretation, with the method of the present Exposition, which is the same throughout, that I shall not at all here detain the Reader with a renewed Declaration of any of them. Onely some few things which immediately concern that part of the Exposition which is now presented unto him, and my labour therein, may be mentioned (as I suppose) unto some usefulness.
1. And it may not be amiss in the first place to take notice of an Objection the present endeavour seems liable and obnoxious unto; and this is the Unseasonableness of it. We live in times that are fortified against the use of Discourses of this nature, especially such as are so long and bulky. The world, and the minds of men therein, are filled with disorder and confusion, and the most are at their wits end with looking after the things that are come and coming on the Earth.