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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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(5) For the completing of this falling away according to the intention of the Apostle, it is required that this Renunciation be avowed and professed; as, when a man forsaketh the Profession of the Gospel, and falls into Judaism or Mahumatisme, or Gentilism, in Persuasion and Practice. For the Apostle discourseth concerning Faith and Obedience as professed, and so therefore also of their contraries. And this avowment of a Relinquishment of the Gospel hath many provoking Aggravations attending it. And yet whereas some men may in their hearts and minds utterly renounce the Gospel, but upon some outward secular considerations, either dare not or will not profess that inward Renunciation, their falling away is complete and total in the sight of God; and all they do to cover their Apostasy in an external compliance with Christian Religion, is in the sight of God but a mocking of him, and the highest Aggravation of their sin.
(5) For the compleating of this falling away according to the intention of the Apostle, it is required that this Renunciation be avowed and professed; as, when a man forsaketh the Profession of the Gospel, and falls into Judaisme or Mahumatisme, or Gentilisme, in Perswasion and Practice. For the Apostle discourseth concerning Faith and Obedience as professed, and so therefore also of their contraries. And this avowment of a Relinquishment of the Gospel hath many provoking Aggravations attending it. And yet whereas some men may in their hearts and minds utterly renounce the Gospel, but upon some outward secular considerations, either dare not or will not profess that inward Renunciation, their falling away is compleat and total in the sight of God; and all they do to cover their Apostasie in an external compliance with Christian Religion, is in the sight of God but a mocking of him, and the highest Aggravation of their sin.
This is the falling away intended by the Apostle; A voluntary resolved Relinquishment of, and Apostasy from the Gospel, the Faith, Rule, and Obedience thereof, which cannot be without casting the highest reproach and contumely imaginable upon the Person of Christ himself, as is afterwards expressed.