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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 Goodness and Excellency in this Heavenly Gift, which may be tasted or experienced in some measure by such as never receive him, in their life, power and efficacy. They may taste, (1) Of the Word in its Truth, not its Power; (2) Of the Worship of the Church in its outward Order, not its inward Beauty; (3) Of the Gifts of the Church, not its Graces.
4. A Rejection of the Gospel, its Truth and Worship, after some experience had of their worth and excellency, is an high Aggravation of Sin, and a certain presage of Destruction.
The Third Property whereby these Persons are described is added in those words, [Greek or Hebrew]; and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost. 1This is placed in the middle or centre of the Privileges enumerated, two preceding it, and two following after, as that which is the root and animating Principle of them all. They all are effects of the Holy Ghost, in his Gifts or his Graces, and so do depend on the participation of him. Now men do so partake of the Holy Ghost, as they do receive him. And he may be received either as unto personal Inhabitation, or as unto spiritual Operations. In the first way the world cannot receive him, Joh. 14. 17. where the world is opposed unto true Believers, and therefore these here intended were not in that sense partakers of him. His Operations respect his Gifts. So to partake of him is to have a ⟨p. 46⟩share, part or portion in what he distributes by way of spiritual Gifts; in answer unto that expression; All these worketh that one and self-same Spirit, dividing unto every one severally as he will,