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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.
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(4) To mind them in an especial manner of the Privileges they enjoyed under the Gospel, above what they had in their Judaism. For, whereas then they had not so much as heard that there was an Holy Ghost, that is, a blessed Dispensation of him in spiritual Gifts, Acts 19. 2. now they themselves in their own persons were made Partakers of him, than which there could be no greater Aggravation of their Apostasy: And we may observe in our way, that
(4) To mind them in an especial manner of the Priviledges they enjoyed under the Gospel, above what they had in their Judaisme. For, whereas then they had not so much as heard that there was an Holy Ghost, that is, a blessed Dispensation of him in spiritual Gifts, Acts 19. 2. now they themselves in their own persons were made Partakers of him, than which there could be no greater Aggravation of their Apostasie: And we may observe in our way, that
The Holy Ghost is present with many as unto powerful Operations, with whom he is not present as to gracious Inhabitation: Or many are made Partakers of him in his spiritual Gifts, who are never made Partakers of him in his saving Graces, Matth. 7. 22, 23.
Fourthly, It is added in the Description, that they had tasted [Greek or Hebrew], The Good Word of God. And we must enquire, (1) What is meant by the Word of God. 1(2) How it is said to be Good; and (3) In what sense they taste of it.