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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.
Whilst the Gospel is preached unto men, they are under their great trial for Eternity. 1The Application that is made unto them is for an Experiment how they will prove. If they acquit themselves in Faith and Obedience, they receive the Blessing of Eternal Life from God. If they prove barren and unprofitable, they are rejected of God and cursed by him. Nor shall they ever have any other Trial, nor shall ever any other Experiment be made of them, Heb. 10. Their Season of the enjoyment of the Gospel is their day; When that is past the Night comes on them wherein they cannot work. When these Bellows are burnt, and the Lead is consumed, the Founder Founding in vain, men are rejected as Reprobate Silver, never to be tried any more. Men do but deceive themselves in their reserve of a Purgatory when they are gone out of this world. If they are cast under their Trial here, so they must abide to Eternity. And we may do well to consider these things distinctly because our concernment in them, is very great. To this purpose observe,
- 1Obser. 1.
1. That we are all made for an Eternal State and Condition in blessedness or woe. Men may live like Beasts, and therefore wish that they might dye like them also; But we are all made with another design, and must all of us stand in our Eternal Lot at the end of the days, Dan. 12. 13.
1. That we are all made for an Eternal State and Condition in blessedness or wo. Men may live like Beasts, and therefore wish that they might dye like them also; But we are all made with another design, and must all of us stand in our Eternal Lot at the end of the days, Dan. 12. 13.