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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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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.
This is the falling away intended by the Apostle; A voluntary resolved Relinquishment of, and Apostasie 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.
Concerning these Persons and their thus falling away, two things are to be considered in the Text. (1) What is affirmed of them. (2) The Reason of that Affirmation.
The first is, That it is impossible to renew them again to Repentance. The thing intended is negative; to renew them again to Repentance, this is denied of them; but the modification of that negation, turns the Proposition into an Affirmation; It is impossible so to do.