A53678:1669
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
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1. In the way of a singular and absolute Promise, as it was first declared unto, and thereby established with Adam and afterwards with Abraham. This is the Declaration of the Purpose of God, or the free Determination of his VVill as to his dealing with sinners, on the supposition of the fall and the forfeiture of their first Covenant state. Hereof the Grace and VVill of God was the only Cause: Heb. 8. 8. ⟨p. 224⟩And the Death of Christ could not be the means of its procurement; for he himself and all that he was to do for us, was the substance of that Promise wherein this Declaration of Gods Grace and Purpose was made, or of this Covenant of Grace which was introduced and established in the room of that which was broken and disannulled as unto the ends and benefits of a Covenant. The substance of the first Promise, wherein the whole Covenant of Grace was virtually comprised, directly respected and expressed the giving of him, for the Recovery of mankind from sin and misery by his Death. Gen. 3. 15. Wherefore if he, and all the benefits of his Mediation, his Death and all the effects of it, be contained in the Promise of the Covenant, that is, in the Covenant it self; then was not his Death the procuring Cause of that Covenant, nor do we owe it thereunto.
1. In the way of a singular and absolute Promise, as it was first declared unto, and thereby established with Adam and afterwards with Abraham. This is the Declaration of the Purpose of God, or the free Determination of his VVill as to his dealing with sinners, on the supposition of the fall and the forfeiture of their first Covenant state. Hereof the Grace and VVill of God was the only Cause: Heb. 8. 8. ⟨p. 224⟩And the Death of Christ could not be the means of its procurement; for he himself and all that he was to do for us, was the substance of that Promise wherein this Declaration of Gods Grace and Purpose was made, or of this Covenant of Grace which was introduced and established in the room of that which was broken and disanulled as unto the ends and benefits of a Covenant. The substance of the first Promise, wherein the whole Covenant of Grace was virtually comprized, directly respected and expressed the giving of him, for the Recovery of mankind from sin and misery by his Death.