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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 4, 5, 6: Verse 4, 5, 6.
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.
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift, 1and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the Powers of the world to come, if they fall away (for' any) to renew them again to Repentance; seeing they crucify again to themselves the Son of God, and put him unto open shame, (or treat him ignominiously.)
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift, 1and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the Powers of the world to come, if they fall away (for' any) to renew them again to Repentance; seeing they crucifie again to themselves the Son of God, and put him unto open shame, (or treat him ignominiously.)
- 1V. 4, 5, 6.
That this passage in our Apostles discourse hath been looked upon as accompanied with great difficulties, is known to all. And many have the Differences been about its Interpretation. For both Doctrinally and Practically, sundry have here stumbled and miscarried. It is almost generally agreed upon, that from these words, and the colourable but indeed perverse Interpretation and Application made of them by some in the Primitive times, occasioned by the then present circumstances of things, to be mentioned ⟨p. 39⟩afterwards, the Latin Church was so backward in receiving the Epistle it self, that it had not absolutely prevailed therein in the days of Hierome, as we have elsewhere declared. Wherefore it is necessary, that we should a little enquire into the occasion of the great contests which have been in the Church almost in all Ages, about the sense of this place.