A53678:1823
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.
Who can express the opposition that continues to be made unto this work of completing the Salvation of Believers? what Power is able to conflict and conquer the remaining strength of Sin, the opposition of Satan and the World? How innumerable are the Temptations which every individual Believer is exposed unto, each of them in its own nature ruinous and pernicious?
Who can expresse the opposition that continues to be made unto this work of compleating the Salvation of Believers? what Power is able to conflict and conquer the remaining strength of Sin, the opposition of Sathan and the World? How innumerable are the Temptations which every individual Believer is exposed unto, each of them in its own nature ruinous and pernitious?
God alone knoweth all things perfectly in infinite wisdom, and as they are. He alone knows how great a work it is to save Believers unto the utmost; what Wisdom, what Power, what Grace and Mercy is requisite thereunto. He alone knows what is meet unto the way and manner of it, so as it may be perfected unto his own Glory. His infinite wisdom alone hath found out and determined the glorious and mysterious ways of the Emanation of Divine Power and Grace unto this End. Upon all these Grounds, unto all these Purposes hath he appointed the continual intercession of the Lord Christ in the most Holy place. This he saw needful and expedient unto the Salvation of the Church and his own glory. So will he exert his own Almighty Power unto those ends. The good Lord help me to believe and adore the Mystery of it.
2. The most glorious Prospect that we can take into the things that are within the veil, into the remaining Transactions of the work of our Salvation in the most Holy place, is in the Representation that is made unto us of the intercession of Christ. Of old when Moses went into the Tabernacle, all the People looked after him, until he entered