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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.
Duties of Gospel Obedience are Fruits meet for God, things that have a proper and 1especial tendency unto his Glory. As the precious Fruits of the Earth which the Husbandman waiteth for, are meet for his use, that is, such as supply his wants, satisfy his occasions, answer his labour and charge, nourish and enrich him; So do these Duties of Gospel Obedience, answer all the Ends of Gods Glory which he hath designed unto it in the world. Hereby, saith our Saviour, is my Father glorified, if ye bring forth much Fruit.
Duties of Gospel Obedience are Fruits meet for God, things that have a proper and 1especial tendency unto his Glory. As the precious Fruits of the Earth which the Husbandman waiteth for, are meet for his use, that is, such as supply his wants, satisfie his occasions, answer his labour and charge, nourish and enrich him; So do these Duties of Gospel Obedience, answer all the Ends of Gods Glory which he hath designed unto it in the world. Hereby, saith our Saviour, is my Father glorified, if ye bring forth much Fruit.
- 1Obser. 2.
And we must enquire how these Fruits are meet for God. For (1) they are not so, as though he stood in any need of them unto his Glory. Our Goodness extends not unto him, Psal. 16. 2. It doth not so, as though he had need of it, or put any value on it for its own sake. Hence he rejecteth all those multiplied outward Services which men trusted unto, as if they obliged him by them, because without them or their Services he is the Sovereign Possessor of all created Beings and their Effects, Psal. 50. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. All thoughts hereof are to be rejected; see