A53678:1790
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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He that doth not know that there is an unparalleled Eminency of these in him, who is not in some measure instructed in the cause and effect of them, knows no more of the Gospel than a Jew. There is more Love, Pity and Compassion in Christ Jesus towards every poor sinner, that comes unto God by him, than all the Saints in Heaven are able to comprehend. And if Kindred or Alliance may be of consideration in this matter, he is more nearly related unto us, than Father or Mother, or wife or children, or all together, we being not only bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, but so joined to him, as to be one spirit with him.
He that doth not know that there is an unparellel'd Eminency of these in him, who is not in some measure instructed in the cause and effect of them, knows no more of the Gospel than a Jew. There is more Love, Pity and Compassion in Christ Jesus towards every poor sinner, that comes unto God by him, than all the Saints in Heaven are able to comprehend. And if Kindred or Alliance may be of consideration in this matter, he is more nearly related unto us, than Father or Mother, or wife or children, or all together, we being not only bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, but so joyned to him, as to be one spirit with him.
But it will yet be said, that it is on none of these considerations that men choose to go unto God by other Mediators of Intercession, only whereas the Lord Christ is so great and so gloriously exalted at the right hand of the Majesty on high, they dare not always presumptuously intrude into his glorious presence: and therefore they make use of the Saints, who are more cognate unto us, and not clothed with such terrible Majesty. And in going unto God by the friends of Christ, they please him as well as if they went immediately by himself. Answ. (1) He is an Unbeliever, unto whom the Glorious Exaltation of the Lord Christ is a Discouragement from going unto him, or by him unto God on the Throne of Grace. For all the Glory, Power and Majesty of Christ in Heaven is proposed unto Believers, to encourage them to come unto him, and to put their Trust in him. But this is the talk of men who, whatever Devotion they pretend unto, indeed know nothing really, of what it is to pray, to believe, to trust in Christ, or by him to draw near with boldness unto the Throne of Grace, see