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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.
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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.
This was the especial Design of the Apostle with respect unto these Hebrews; And he adds this Scheme or Dclineation 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.
1. The Subject of the proposition in the similitude, is the Earth; and that which is represented thereby, is the Hearts and Minds of all those to whom the Gospel 1is preached. So it is explained in that Parable of our Saviour, wherein he expressed the Word of the Gospel as preached by Seed, and compares the Hearers of it unto several sorts of Ground whereinto that Seed is cast. And the Allusion is wonderful apposite and instructive.