A53678:162
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.
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.
2. We are assured hereby that such things shall not only be remembered, but also rewarded. It is unto the Righteous, as we have observed, not only a Resurrection from the dead, but a Resurrection unto Life, that is Eternal, as their Reward. And this is that which either doth or ought to give Life and Diligence unto our Obedience. So Moses in what he did and suffered for Christ, had respect unto the recompense of reward, Heb. 11. 26. God hath put this declaration hereof into the foundation of all our Obedience in the Covenant. I am thy exceeding great reward, Gen. 15. 1. And at the close of it, the Lord Jesus doth not think it enough to declare that he will come himself, but also that his reward is with him, Rev. 22. 12. Some have foolishly supposed that this Reward from God must needs infer Merit in our selves, whereas Eternal Life is the Gift of God through Jesus Christ, and not the wages of our works, as Sin is of death, Rom. 6. 23. It is such reward as is absolutely a free gift, a gift of Grace; and if it be by Grace, then it is no more of works, otherwise Grace is no more Grace, and if it be of works, then it is no more Grace, otherwise work is no more work, Rom. 11. 6. The same thing cannot be of Works and Grace also, of our own Merit, and of the free Gift of God. And others, it is to be feared, under a mistaken pretence of Grace, do keep off themselves from a due respect unto this gracious reward, which the Lord Christ hath appointed as the blessed issue and end of our Obedience. But hereby they deprive themselves of one great motive and encouragement thereunto, especially of an endeavour that their Obedience may be such, and the fruits of it so abound, that the Lord Christ may be signally glorified in giving out a gracious reward unto them at the last day. For whereas he hath designed in his own Grace and Bounty to give us such a glorious Reward, and intendeth by the Operation of his Spirit to make us fit to receive it, or meet for the Inheritance of Saints in Light, Col. 1. 12. our principal respect unto this Reward, is, that we may receive it with an advantage of Glory