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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.
1. In all these things the Sovereignty of God is to be submitted unto. And unto humble Souls there is beauty in divine Sovereignty. When the Lord Jesus rejoiced in Spirit, and thanked his heavenly Father that he had revealed the Mysteries of the Gospel unto Babes, and hid them from the Wise and Prudent, he assigns no other Reason but his Sovereignty and Pleasure, wherein he rejoiced; even so Father, for so it seemed Good in thy Sight, Luke 10. 21. And if we cannot see an excellency in the Dispensations of God, because they are his, who gives no account of his matters, we shall never delight in his ways. So our Apostle gives no other Reason of this legal Dispensation, but that God had provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect; chap. 11. 40. Therefore did he give them this Law for a Season, which made nothing perfect; even so it seemed Good in his Sight. It is the Glory of God to be gracious to whom he will be gracious, and that at what time he will, and unto what degree and measure he pleaseth. And in this Glory of his are we to acquiesce.
1. In all these things the Soveraignty of God is to be submitted unto. And unto humble Souls there is beauty in divine Soveraignty. When the Lord Jesus rejoyced in Spirit, and thanked his heavenly Father that he had revealed the Mysteries of the Gospel unto Babes, and hid them from the Wise and Prndent, he assigns no other Reason but his Soveraignty and Pleasure, wherein he rejoyced; even so Father, for so it seemed Good in thy Sight, Luke 10. 21. And if we cannot see an excellency in the Dispensations of God, because they are his, who gives no account of his matters, we shall never delight in his ways. So our Apostle gives no other Reason of this legal Dispensation, but that God had provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect; chap. 11. 40. Therefore did he give them this Law for a Season, which made nothing perfect; even so it seemed Good in his Sight. It is the Glory of God to be gracious to whom he will be gracrous, and that at what time he will, and unto what degree and measure he pleaseth. And in this Glory of his are we to acquiesce.