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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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For they concluded well enough, that the continuance of the Souls of men would answer no design of Providence or Justice, if their bodies were not raised again. And whereas God had now given the most illustrious testimony unto this truth in the Resurrection of Christ himself, the Sadducees became the most inveterate Enemies unto him and Opposers of him. For they not only acted against him, and those who professed to believe in him, from that Infidelity which was common unto them with most of their Country-men; but also because their peculiar Heresy was everted and condemned thereby. And it is usual with men of corrupt minds to prefer such peculiar errors above all other concerns of Religion whatever, and to have their Lusts inflamed by them into the utmost intemperance. They therefore were the first stirrers up and fiercest pursuers of the Primitive persecutions, Acts 4. 1, 2. The Sadducees came upon the Apostles, being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the Resurrection from the dead. The overthrow of their private Heresy was that which enraged them, Chap. 5. 17, 18. Then the High Priest rose up, and all that were with him, which is the Sect of the Sadducees, and were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the Apostles and put them in the common Prison. And an alike rage were the Pharisees put into about their Ceremonies, wherein they placed their especial interest and glory. And our Apostle did wisely make an advantage of this difference about the Resurrection between those two great Sects, to divide them in their Counsels and Actings, who were before agreed on his destruction on the common account of his preaching Jesus Christ, Acts 23. 6, 7, 8, 9.
For they concluded well enough, that the continuance of the Souls of men would answer no design of Providence or Justice, if their bodies were not raised again. And whereas God had now given the most illustrious testimony unto this truth in the Resurrection of Christ himself, the Sadducees became the most inveterate Enemies unto him and Opposers of him. For they not only acted against him, and those who professed to believe in him, from that Infidelity which was common unto them with most of their Country-men; but also because their peculiar Heresie was everted and condemned thereby. And it is usual with men of corrupt minds to prefer such peculiar errors above all other concerns of Religion whatever, and to have their Lusts inflamed by them into the utmost intemperance. They therefore were the first stirrers up and fiercest pursuers of the Primitive persecutions,