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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.
The Distribution of this Earth into several parts, with the different Lots and Events of them, is nextly to be considered. The first sort the Apostle describes two ways. (1) By its fruitfulness; (2) By its acceptation with God. And this fruitfulness he farther manifests; (1) From the fruit it self which it bears, it is Herb, or Herbs; (2) From the Nature and Use of that Fruit, it is meet for them by whom it is dressed. (3) The manner of it, it brings it forth. These things we must a little open in their Order, as they be in the Text.
1. [Greek or Hebrew], it bringeth forth. [Greek or Hebrew]. This word properly signifies the bringing forth of a Woman that hath conceived with Child, [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 1. 31. And so it is constantly used in the New Testament, and not otherwise but only in this place, and James 1. 15. [Greek or Hebrew], in an elegant similitude he compareth the work of Lust in Temptation unto an Adulterous conception in the Womb of the Adulteress, when at length actual sin is brought forth. The Seeds of it are cast into the Mind and Will by Temptation, where after they are warmed, fomented and cherished, Sin that ugly Monster comes forth in the World. So is this Earth said to bring forth, as a Womb that is naturally and kindly impregnated, in its appointed season. And therefore when the Apostle speaks of the other sort, he changeth his Expression for such a word as may suit a deformed and monstrous Production. But the Native power of the Earth being cherished by the Rain that falls on it, brings forth as from a teeming Womb, the Fruits of those Seeds it is possessed withal.
1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it bringeth forth. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. This word properly signifies the bringing forth of a Woman that hath conceived with Child, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,