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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.
2. This Rain is said to fall often on the Earth. And this may be considered either with respect unto the especial concernment of these Hebrews which was laid open before, or unto the ordinary dispensation of the Gospel. In the first way it regards and expresseth the frequent addresses made unto the People of the Jews in the Ministry of the Word for their healing and recovery from those ways of Ruin wherein they were engaged. And so it may include the Ministry of the Prophets, with the close put unto it by that of Christ himself, concerning which see our Exposition on Chap. 1. 1. And concerning this whole Ministry it is, that our Saviour so expostulates with them, Matth. 23. 37. How often would I have gathered your Children. And this also he at large represents in the Parable of the Householder and his Vineyard, with the Servants that he sent unto it, from time to time to seek for fruit, and last of all his Son, Matth. 21. 33, 34, 35, 36. Take it in the latter way for the Dispensation of the word in general, and the manner of it with frequency and urgency is included in this expression. Where the Lord Christ sends the Gospel to be preached, it is his will that it should be so, instantly in season and out of season, that it may come as abundant showers of Rain on the Earth.
2. This Rain is said to fall often on the Earth. And this may be considered either with respect unto the especial concernment of these Hebrews which was laid open before, or unto the ordinary dispensation of the Gospel. In the first way it regards and expresseth the frequent addresses made unto the People of the Jews in the Ministry of the Word for their healing and recovery from those ways of Ruine wherein they were ingaged. And so it may include the Ministry of the Prophets, with the close put unto it by that of Christ himself, concerning which see our Exposition on Chap. 1. 1. And concerning this whole Ministry it is, that our Saviour so expostulates with them, Matth. 23. 37. How often would I have gathered your Children. And this also he at large represents in the Parable of the Housholder and his Vineyard, with the Servants that he sent unto it, from time to time to seek for fruit, and last of all his Son,