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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
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.
1. And it may not be amiss in the first place to take notice of an Objection the present endeavour seems liable and obnoxious unto; and this is the Unseasonableness of it. We live in times that are fortified against the use of Discourses of this nature, especially such as are so long and bulky. The world, and the minds of men therein, are filled with disorder and confusion, and the most are at their wits end with looking after the things that are come and coming on the Earth.
1. And it may not be amiss in the first place to take notice of an Objection the present endeavour seems liable and obnoxious unto; and this is the Unseasonableness of it. We live in times that are fortifyed against the use of Discourses of this nature, especially such as are so long and bulky. The world, and the minds of men therein, are filled with disorder and confusion, and the most are at their wits end with looking after the things that are come and coming on the Earth.
They have enough to do, in hearing, telling and reading, real or pretended News of public affairs, so as to divert them from engaging their time, and industry in the perusal and study of such discourses. Besides, there is not any thing in this now published to condite it unto the Palate of the present Age, in personal contests and reflections, in pleading for or against any party of men or especial way in the profession of Religion; only the fundamental Truths of the Gospel are occasionally contended for. These and the like considerations, might possibly in the judgment of some, have shut up this ⟨image 3⟩whole discourse in darkness upon the account of its being unseasonable.
They have enough to do, in hearing, telling and reading, real or pretended News of publick affairs, so as to divert them from ingaging their time, and industry in the perusal and study of such discourses. Besides, there is not any thing in this now published to condite it unto the Palate of the present Age, in personal contests and reflections, in pleading for or against any party of men or especial way in the profession of Religion; only the fundamental Truths of the Gospel are occasionally contended for. These and the like considerations, might possibly in the judgment of some, have shut up this