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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.
This Rain is said to fall often upon the Earth, which respects the actual Dispensation of the Word, by them unto whom it is committed. And we may thence 1observe, That It is the Duty of those unto whom the Dispensation of the Word is committed of God, to be diligent, watchful, instant in their Work, that their Doctrine may as it were continually drop and distil upon their Hearers; that the Rain may fall often on the Earth. So hath God provided that the Ridges of it may be watered abundantly, to make it soft (or dissolve it) with showers and so he blesseth the springing thereof, Psal. 65. 10. In an hot, parching and dry season, one or two showers do but increase the vehemency of the Heat and Drought, giving matter of new Exhalations which are accompanied with some of the remaining moisture of the Earth. Of no other use is that dead and lazy kind of Preaching wherewith some satisfy themselves and would force others to be contented.
This Rain is said to fall often upon the Earth, which respects the actual Dispensation of the Word, by them unto whom it is committed. And we may thence 1observe, That It is the Duty of those unto whom the Dispensation of the Word is committed of God, to be diligent, watchful, instant in their Work, that their Doctrine may as it were continually drop and distill upon their Hearers; that the Rain may fall often on the Earth. So hath God provided that the Ridges of it may be watered abundantly, to make it soft (or dissolve it) with showers and so he blesseth the springing thereof, Psal. 65. 10. In an hot, parching and dry season, one or two showers do but increase the vehemency of the Heat and Drouth, giving matter of new Exhalations which are accompanied with some of the remaining moisture of the Earth. Of no other use is that dead and lazie kind of Preaching wherewith some satisfie themselves and would force others to be contented.
- 1Obs. 3.