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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.
3. There is a saving, sanctifying Light and Knowledge, which this spiritual Illumination riseth not up unto. For though it transiently affect the mind with some glances of the Beauty, Glory, and Excellency of spiritual things, yet it doth not give that direct, steady, intuitive insight into them, which is obtained by Grace. See 2 Cor. 3. 18. chap. 4. 4, 6. Neither doth it renew, change, or transform the Soul into a conformity unto the things known, by planting of them in the Will and Affections, as a gracious saving Light doth, 2 Cor. 3. 18. Rom. 6. 17. Rom. 12. 1. These things I judged necessary to be added, to clear the nature of the first character of Apostates.
The second thing asserted in the description of them, is, that they have tasted of the 1Heavenly Gift; [Greek or Hebrew]: The doubling of the Article gives Emphasis to the expression. And we must enquire (1) what is meant by the Heavenly Gift. And (2) what by tasting of it.
The second thing asserted in the description of them, is, that they have tasted of the 1Heavenly Gift; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: The doubling of the Article gives Emphasis to the expression. And we must enquire (1) what is meant by the Heavenly Gift. And (2) what by tasting of it.
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