A53678:1771
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.
Take the word in the first sense, and the meaning is; that he will not effect or work out this or that part of our salvation; do one thing or another that belongs unto it, and leave what remains unto our selves or others; but he is our Rock and his work is perfect. Whatever belongs unto our entire complete Salvation he is able to effect it. The general notion of the most that are called Christians, lies directly against this Truth.
Take the word in the first sense, and the meaning is; that he will not effect or work out this or that part of our salvation; do one thing or another that belongs unto it, and leave what remains unto our selves or others; but he is our Rock and his work is perfect. Whatever belongs unto our entire compleat Salvation he is able to effect it. The general notion of the most that are called Christians, lies directly against this Truth.
In the latter sense two things may be intended. (1.) That after an entrance is made into this work, and men begin to be made partakers of deliverance thereby, there may great oppositions be made against it in Temptations, Trials, Sins and Death, before it be brought unto Perfection. But our Lord Christ, as our Faithful High Priest, fainteth not in his work, but is able to carry us through all these difficulties, and will do so until it be finished for ever in heaven. (2.) That this Salvation is durable, perpetual, eternal, Isa. 45. 17. Salvare in aeternum; to procure salutem aeternam. But favores sunt ampliandi, and there is nothing hinders but that we may take the words in such a comprehensive sense, as to include the meaning of both these Interpretations. He is able to save completely as to all Parts, fully as to all causes, and for ever in Duration. And we may observe,
In the latter sense two things may be intended. (1.) That after an entrance is made into this work, and men begin to be made partakers of deliverance thereby, there may great oppositions be made against it in Temptations, Trials, Sins and Death, before it be brought unto Perfection. But our Lord Christ, as our Faithful High Priest, fainteth not in his work, but is able to carry us through all these difficulties, and will do so until it be finished for ever in heaven. (2.) That this Salvation is durable, perpetual, eternal,