A53678:217
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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2. Respect may be had unto the condition of the Hebrews whose sloth and negligence in hearing the word he hath now under reproof, and the Will or Purpose of God concerning them. For he seems to intimate unto them, that there may be some fear lest God should be so provoked by their former miscarriages, as that he would not afford them the means of farther instruction. For this is a thing which God often threatens, and which falls out oftener than we are aware of, yea most Nations of the Earth are examples of this severity of God. So a word of the same importance is used unto this purpose, as to the turning away of the Gospel from any persons or people, Acts 16. 7. They assayed to go into Bithynia but the Spirit suffered them not, he permitted it not; which is the same, with forbidding them to preach the word in Asia, ver. 6 And so the sense of the expression amounts to this; If God, whom I fear you have much provoked by your negligence and contempt of his word, will yet exercise patience and long-suffering towards you, and not cast you out of his care by forbidding me to proceed in my design, or depriving me of my opportunity, if God hinder me not by reason of your unworthiness, but be graciously pleased to be with me in my designed work.
2. Respect may be had unto the condition of the Hebrews whose sloth and negligence in hearing the word he hath now under reproof, and the Will or Purpose of God concerning them. For he seems to intimate unto them, that there may be some fear lest God should be so provoked by their former miscarriages, as that he would not afford them the means of farther instruction. For this is a thing which God often threatens, and which falls out oftner than we are aware of, yea most Nations of the Earth are examples of this severity of God. So a word of the same importance is used unto this purpose, as to the turning away of the Gospel from any persons or people, Acts 16. 7. They assayed to go into Bythinia but the Spirit suffered them not, he permitted it not; which is the same, with forbidding them to preach the word in Asia, ver. 6 And so the sense of the expression amounts to this; If God, whom I fear you have much provoked by your negligence and contempt of his word, will yet exercise patience and long-suffering towards you, and not cast you out of his care by forbidding me to proceed in my design, or depriving me of my opportunity, if God hinder me not by reason of your unworthiness, but be graciously pleased to be with me in my designed work.