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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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2. Our next enquiry is more particularly whom he doth intend. And (1) They were such who not long before were converted from Judaism unto Christianity, upon the evidence of the Truth of its Doctrine, and the miraculous Operations wherewith its Dispensation was accompanied. (2) He intends not the common sort of them, but such as had obtained especial Privileges among them. For they had received extraordinary Gifts of the Holy Ghost, as speaking with Tongues or working Miracles. And (3) They had found in themselves and other convincing evidences, that the Kingdom of God and the Messiah, which they called the world to come, was come unto them, and had satisfaction in the Glories of it. (4) Such Persons as these, as they have a work of Light on their minds, so according to the efficacy of their Convictions may have such a change wrought upon their Affections and in their Conversation, as that they may be of great esteem among Professors; and such these here intended might be. Now it must needs be some horrible frame of spirit, some malicious enmity against the Truth and Holiness of Christ and the Gospel, some violent Love of sin and the world, that could turn off such Persons as these from the Faith, and blot out all that Light and Conviction of Truth, which they had received. But the least Grace is a better security for Heaven, than the greatest Gifts and Privileges whatever.
2. Our next enquiry is more particularly whom he doth intend. And (1) They were such who not long before were converted from Judaisme unto Christianity, upon the evidence of the Truth of its Doctrine, and the miraculous Operations wherewith its Dispensation was accompanied. (2) He intends not the common sort of them, but such as had obtained especial Priviledges among them. For they had received extraordinary Gifts of the Holy Ghost, as speaking with Tongues or working Miracles. And (3) They had found in themselves and other convincing evidences, that the Kingdom of God and the Messiah, which they called the world to come, was come unto them, and had satisfaction in the Glories of it. (4) Such Persons as these, as they have a work of Light on their minds, so according to the efficacy of their Convictions may have such a change wrought upon their Affections and in their Conversation, as that they may be of great esteem among Professors; and such these here intended might be. Now it must needs be some horrible frame of spirit, some malitious enmity against the Truth and Holiness of Christ and the Gospel, some violent Love of sin and the world, that could turn off such Persons as these from the Faith, and blot out all that Light and Conviction of Truth, which they had received. But the least Grace is a better security for Heaven, than the greatest Gifts and Priviledges whatever.