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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
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.
AN EXPOSITION OF THE SIXTH CHAPTER Of the EPISTLE of PAUL the Apostle UNTO THE HEBREWS. CHAP. VI.
This whole Chapter is a continuation of the Digression which the Apostle had occasionally entered into, in the Eleventh Verse of the preceding Chapter. For upon the consideration of the Greatness of the Mystery, and Difficulty of the Doctrine which he designed to instruct these Hebrews in, and his fear of their Disability or Unpreparedness (at least of some) to receive it in a due manner unto their Edification, he engageth into a new Discourse, filled up with Reasons and Arguments to excite them unto a diligent Attendance. And this he so doth, as in the very last words of this Chapter, to return by an Artificial connection of his Discourse unto what he had asserted in the Tenth Verse of that foregoing.
THis whole Chapter is a continuation of the Digression which the Apostle had occasionally entred into, in the Eleventh Verse of the preceding Chapter. For upon the consideration of the Greatness of the Mystery, and Difficulty of the Doctrine which he designed to instruct these Hebrews in, and his fear of their Disability or Unpreparedness (at least of some) to receive it in a due manner unto their Edification, he engageth into a new Discourse, filled up with Reasons and Arguments to excite them unto a diligent Attendance. And this he so doth, as in the very last words of this Chapter, to return by an Artificial connexion of his Discourse unto what he had asserted in the Tenth Verse of that foregoing.
There are Four general parts of this Chapter. (1) The Proposition of what he intended to do, or discourse concerning; with an opposition thereunto of what was by him to be omitted: v. 1, 2, 3. (2) An Excitation of the Hebrews unto singular diligence in attending unto the most perfect Doctrines of Christianity, and making a progress in the Knowledge of Christ. And this he doth from the consideration of the greatness of the Sin, and inevitableness of the Destruction of Apostates. For this sort of Persons do commonly arise from among such, as having received the Truth, and made a Profession thereof, do not diligently endeavour a Progress towards Perfection, according to their Duty. V. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. (3) A Lenifying of the severity of this Commination in respect of its Application unto these Hebrews. For he expresseth his hope that it did not so belong unto them, or that the Sin condemned should be found in them; or the Punishment threatened fall on them. But the warning it self contained in the Commination, was, as he shows, Good, Wholesome and Seasonable. And of this his Hope and Judgment concerning the Hebrews, he expresseth his Grounds taken from the Righteousness of God, their own Faith and Love, which he prays they may persevere in. V. 9, 10, 11, 12. (4) An Encouragement unto Faith and Perseverance, from the Example of Abraham,