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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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Wherefore it did nearly respect the Judgement to come, God giving therein an instance what obstinate and profligate Sinners are to look for at that great day. Wherefore Jude says expressly, they are set forth for an Example suffering the vengeance of Eternal Fire, ver. 7. And this is the Language of all Gods extraordinary Judgements either on persons or places in the world. Let mens Sins be what they will, God can endure in his long-suffering the Sins of one as well as another, among the Vessels of wrath that are fitted for destruction, and so he doth ordinarily, or for the most part. But yet he will sometimes reach out his hand from Heaven in an extraordinary instance of Vengeance, on purpose that men may know that things shall not for ever be passed over in such a promiscuous manner, but that he hath appointed another day wherein he will judge the world in Righteousness. And for this reason such signal Judgements as are Evidences of the future Eternal Judgement of God, are in the Scripture expressed in words that seem to declare that Judgement it self, rather than the Types of it, Isa. 34. 4. Rev. 6. 13, 14. Dan. 7. 9, 10. Math. 24. 29, 30.
Wherefore it did nearly respect the Judgement to come, God giving therein an instance what obstinate and profligate Sinners are to look for at that great day. Wherefore Jude says expresly, they are set forth for an Example suffering the vengeance of Eternal Fire, ver. 7. And this is the Language of all Gods extraordinary Judgements either on persons or places in the world. Let mens Sins be what they will, God can endure in his long-suffering the Sins of one as well as another, among the Vessels of wrath that are fitted for destruction, and so he doth ordinarily, or for the most part. But yet he will sometimes reach out his hand from Heaven in an extraordinary instance of Vengeance, on purpose that men may know that things shall not for ever be passed over in such a promiscuous manner, but that he hath appointed another day wherein he will judge the world in Righteousness. And for this reason such signal Judgements as are Evidences of the future Eternal Judgement of God, are in the Scripture expressed in words that seem to declare that Judgement it self, rather than the Types of it,