A53678:1786
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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2. Attendance unto the Service, the worship of God in the Gospel, is required to interest us in the saving Care and Power of our High Priest. Men deceive themselves who look to be saved by him, but take no care to come to God in Holy Worship by him: Nor is it an easy or common thing so to do. All men pretend unto Divine worship, some one way, some another, and in words they interpose the name of Christ therein; but really to come to God by him, is a matter of another import. Two things are indispensably required thereunto. (1.) That the Principle of saving Faith be antecedent unto it; (2.) That the exercise of Faith be concomitant with it. Unless we are true Believers our worship will not be accepted. And unless we are in the exercise of Faith on God through Christ in the performance ⟨p. 242⟩of it, it gives no glory to him, it brings no Advantage unto our selves.
2. Attendance unto the Service, the worship of God in the Gospel, is required to interest us in the saving Care and Power of our High Priest. Men deceive themselves who look to be saved by him, but take no care to come to God in Holy Worship by him: Nor is it an easie or common thing so to do. All men pretend unto Divine worship, some one way, some another, and in words they interpose the name of Christ therein; but really to come to God by him, is a matter of another import. Two things are indispensibly required thereunto. (1.) That the Principle of saving Faith be antecedent unto it; (2.) That the exercise of Faith be concomitant with it. Unless we are true Believers our worship will not be accepted. And unless we are in the exercise of Faith on God through Christ in the performance ⟨p. 242⟩of it, it gives no glory to him, it brings no Advantage unto our selves.
3. Those who endeavour to come unto God any other way, but by Christ; as, by Saints and Angels, may do well to consider, whether they have any such Office in Heaven as by virtue whereof they are able to save them to the uttermost. That this is done by those of the Roman Church, cannot with any modesty be denied, yea, it is avowed by them. For when they are charged with the wickedness of their Doctrine and Practice in this matter, evacuating the Mediation of Christ, they reply that they admit of no Mediators of Reconciliation with God, but only of intercession. Be it so, Ability to save to the utmost is here ascribed unto our High Priest upon the Account of his intercession. A respect unto his Oblation whereby he made Reconciliation is included, but it is the efficacy of his Intercession that is expressly regarded. For being reconciled by his Death, we are saved by his Life,