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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 7, 8: VERSE 7, 8.
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.
When God first brought them into his Land, which was to be the seat of his Ordinances and solemn Worship, the first Town that they came unto was Jericho. This therefore God anathematized or devoted to perpetual Destruction, with a Curse upon him that should attempt its Re-edification, Joh. 6. 17. The whole Land thereby was alienated from its former possessors, and devoted unto another use, and the place it self utterly destroyed. Jerusalem, and consequently the whole Church was now to be made as Jericho; and the Curse denounced was now speedily to be put in Execution, wherein the Land was to be alienated from their Right unto it, and be devoted to Desolation.
(3) The End of all this was that this Earth should be burned. An universal Desolation according to the Prediction of our Saviour by Fire and Sword, representing the Eternal Vengeance they were liable unto was to come upon them. This was now approaching, namely, the End of their Church and State in the Destruction of the City, Temple and Nation.
This was the especial Design of the Apostle with respect unto these Hebrews; And he adds this Scheme or Delineation of the present and approaching Condition of that Apostatized Church, to give Terror unto the Commination that he gave unto unprofitable Professors. But whereas all things unto the very last happened ⟨p. 55⟩unto them in Types, and the Condition of the Churches of the Gospel is represented in their sin and punishment; and whereas the things reflected on are such as it is the common and constant concernment of all Professors heedfully to consider, I shall open the words in the whole latitude of their signification, as they are peculiarly instructive unto us.