A53678:1658
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. [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew], a Surety, is one that undertaketh for another wherein he is defective really or in Reputation. Whatever that undertaking be, whether in Words of Promise, or in depositing of real security in the hands of an Arbitrator, or by any other Personal engagement of Life and Body, it respects the defect of the Person for whom any one becomes a Surety. Such an one is sponsor or fidejussor in all good Authors and common use of speech. And if any one be of absolute credit himself, and of a Reputation every way unquestionable, there is no need of a Surety, unless in case of Mortality. The words of a Surety in the behalf of another whose Ability or Reputation is dubious, are, ad me recipio, faciet aut faciam. And when [Greek or Hebrew] is taken Adjectively as sometimes it is, it signifies him who is satisdationibus obnoxius; liable to payments for others that are non-solvent.
1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Surety, is one that undertaketh for another wherein he is defective really or in Reputation. Whatever that undertaking be, whether in Words of Promise, or in depositing of real security in the hands of an Arbitrator, or by any other Personal engagement of Life and Body, it respects the defect of the Person for whom any one becomes a Surety. Such an one is sponsor or fidejussor in all good Authors and common use of speech. And if any one be of absolute credit himself, and of a Reputation every way unquestionable, there is no need of a Surety, unless in case of Mortality. The words of a Surety in the behalf of another whose Ability or Reputation is dubious, are, ad me recipio, faciet aut faciam. And when 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is taken Adjectively as sometimes it is, it signifies him who is satisdationibus obnoxius; liable to payments for others that are non-solvent.
2. God can therefore have no Surety properly, because there can be no Imagination of any defect on his part. There may be indeed a Question whether any Word or Promise be a Word or Promise of God. To assure us hereof, it is not the work of a Surety, but only any one or any means that may give evidence that so it is. But upon a supposition that what is proposed, is his Word or Promise, there can be no Imagination or Fear of any defect on his part, so as that there should be any need of a Surety for the performance of it. He doth indeed make use of Witnesses to confirm his Word, that is, to testify that such Promises he hath made and so he will do. So the Lord Christ was his Witness,