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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.
In the words we consider, (1) The connection of them unto those foregoing, intimating the occasion of the Introduction of this whole discourse. (2) The subject described in them, or the Persons spoken of, under sundry qualifications, which may be enquired into jointly and severally. (3) What is supposed concerning them. (4) What is affirmed of them on that supposition.
In the words we consider, (1) The connexion of them unto those foregoing, intimating the occasion of the Introduction of this whole discourse. (2) The subject described in them, or the Persons spoken of, under sundry qualifications, which may be enquired into joyntly and severally. (3) What is supposed concerning them. (4) What is affirmed of them on that supposition.
1. The connection of the word sis included in the causal connection; [Greek or Hebrew], For. It respects the Introduction of Reason for what had been before discoursed, as also of the limitation 1which the Apostle added expressly unto his purpose of making a progress in their farther Instruction, if God permit. And he doth not herein express his judgement that they to whom he wrote were such as he describes, for he afterwards declares that he hoped better things concerning them, only it was necessary to give them this caution, that they might take due care not to be such. And whereas he had manifested that they were slow as to the making of a progress in knowledge and a suitable practice; he lets them here know the danger that there was in continuing in that slothful condition. For not to proceed in the ways of the Gospel and Obedience thereunto, is an untoward entrance into a total relinquishment of the one and the other. That therefore they might be acquainted with ⟨p. 41⟩the danger hereof, and be stirred up to avoid that danger, he gives them an account of those who after a Profession of the Gospel, beginning at a non-proficiency under it, do end in Apostasy from it. And we may see, That the severest Comminations are not only useful in the Preaching of the Gospel, but exceeding necessary towards persons that are observed to be slothful in their Profession.