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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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But if we shall follow the other interpretation, and suppose that this Doctrine of Baptisms is an expression of a distinct principle by it self, then cannot the word by any means be restrained unto the Baptism by Water only. For although this be an important head of Christian Doctrine, namely, the declaration, use and end of our Sacramental Initiation into Christ and the Profession of the Gospel, yet no reason can be given why that should be called Baptisms, seeing it hath respect only to the thing it self, and not to the persons who are made partakers of it.
But if we shall follow the other interpretation, and suppose that this Doctrine of Baptisms is an epression of a distinct principle by it self, then cannot the word by any means be restrained unto the Baptism by Water only. For although this be an important head of Christian Doctrine, namely, the declaration, use and end of our Sacramental Initiation into Christ and the Profession of the Gospel, yet no reason can be given why that should be called Baptisms, seeing it hath respect only to the thing it self, and not to the persons who are made partakers of it.
Admit therefore of this sense, that it is the Doctrine concerning Baptisms which is intended; and then the whole of what is taught or the substance of it concerning the Sanctification and Purification of the Souls of men in their Insition into, and Union with Christ, outwardly expressed in the Sign of Baptism, and wrought inwardly by the Spirit and Grace of God, through the efficacy of the Doctrine of the Gospel, in opposition to all the legal and carnal washings among the Jews, is intended hereby. So the Lord Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, Ephes. 5. 26. And indeed the Doctrine hereof is among the Rudiments of Christian Religion.
Admit therefore of this sense, that it is the Doctrine concerning Baptisms which is intended; and then the whole of what is taught or the substnace of it concerning the Sanctification and Purification of the Souls of men in their Insition into, and Union with Christ, outwardly epressed in the Sign of Baptism, and wrought inwardly by the Spirit and Grace of God, through the efficacy of the Doctrine of the Gospel, in opposition to all the legal and carnal washings among the Jews, is intended hereby. So the Lord Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,