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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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Secondly, The Evidence which God hath given concerning this future Judgement, whereon the certainty of it as to us doth depend, may also be considered. And 1. God hath planted a presumption and sense of it on the minds and hearts of men by nature, from whence it is absolutely and eternally inseparable. Conscience is nothing but that judgement which men do make and which they cannot but make of their moral actions with reference unto the supreme future Judgement of God. Hence the Apostle treating of this future Judgement, Rom. 2. 12. 16. diverts to show what Evidence all mankind had in the mean time that such a Judgement there should be, ver. 14, 15. And this he declares to consist in their own unavoidable thoughts concerning their own actions good or evil. This in the mean while accused them, and forced them to own a Judgement to come. Yea this is the proper Language of Conscience unto sinners on all occasions. And so effectual was this Evidence in the minds of the Heathen, that they generally consented into a persuasion, that by one or other, some where or other, a future Judgement would be exercised with respect unto things done in this world. Fabulous inventions and traditions they mixed in abundance with this Conviction, as Rom. 1. 21. but yet they made up the principal notions whereby a Reverence unto a Divine Being was preserved in their minds. And those who were wise and sober among them thought it sufficient to brand a person as impious and wicked, to deny an unseen judgement of mens actions out of this world, wherewith Cato reproached Caesar in the business of Catiline. This sense being that which keeps mankind within some tolerable bounds in Sin, the Psalmist prays that it may be increased in them, Psal. 19. 13. see Gen. 20. 11.
Secondly, The Evidence which God hath given concerning this future Judgement, whereon the certainty of it as to us doth depend, may also be considered. And 1. God hath planted a presumption and sense of it on the minds and hearts of men by nature, from whence it is absolutely and eternally inseparable. Conscience is nothing but that judgement which men do make and which they cannot but make of their moral actions with reference unto the supream future Judgement of God. Hence the Apostle treating of this future Judgement,