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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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1. The general concerns of this Eternal Judgement are all of them plainly expressed in the Scripture, which declare the nature of it. (1) As to its time, there is a determined and unalterable day fixed for it; God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in Righteousness, Acts 17. 31. And this time is commonly called the day of Judgement, Matth. 10. 15. Chap. 11. 22, 24. Chap. 12. 32. Mark 6. 11. 2 Pet. 2. 9. 1 Joh. 4. 17. And this day being fixed in the foreknowledge and determinate counsel of God, can no more be either hastened or deferred, than God himself can be changed. Until this appointed time comes, whatever falls out, he will satisfy his Wisdom and Glory in his ordinary government of the world, interwoven with some occasional extraordinary Judgements, and therein he calls all his own people to be satisfied. For this precise time, the knowledge of it is among the principal secrets of his Sovereignty, which he hath for reasons suited to his infinite Wisdom, laid up in his own Eternal bosom. Hence is that of our Saviour, Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the Angels that are in Heaven, neither the Son, (that is in and by the humane nature) but the Father, Mark 13. 32. which is the highest expression of an unrevealable divine secret. God hath not only not revealed it, but he hath decreed not to reveal it. All enquiries about it are not only sinfully ⟨p. 27⟩curious, but foolish and impious. Then it is certain, when all things foretold in the Scripture are accomplished, when the Obedience of all the Elect is completed, and the measure allotted unto the wickedness of the world in the patience of God is filled up, then and not before, the End shall be. In the mean time when we see a man old, weak, diseased, nature being decayed and infirmities abounding, we may judge that his death is not far off, though we know not when he will die; so seeing the world come to that state and condition, so weakened and decayed as unto its principal end, that it is scarce any longer able to bear the weight of its own wickedness, nor supply the sinful Lusts of its inhabitants; seeing all sorts of Sins, new and old, heard and unheard of perpetrated every where in the light of the Sun, and countenanced with Atheistical security;