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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.
2. That the unchangeable determination of our Eternal state depends on what we do in this Life. There is neither Wisdom, nor Knowledge, Duty, nor Obedience in the Grave whither we are going. As the Tree falls, so it must lye; It is appointed for all men once to dye and after that is the Judgement. Nothing interposeth to alter our state and condition between Death and Judgement. The contrivance of Purgatory when we are gone hence, was an Invention of Satan to delude the Souls of men with hopes of relief, when all means and ways of it were past and irrecoverable.
2. That the unchangeable determination of our Eternal state depends on what we do in this Life. There is neither Wisdom, nor Knowledge, Duty, nor Obedience in the Grave whither we are going. As the Tree falls, so it must lye; It is appointed for all men once to dye and after that is the Judgement. Nothing interposeth to alter our state and condition between Death and Judgement. The contrivance of Purgatory when we are gone hence, was an Invention of Sathan to delude the Souls of men with hopes of relief, when all means and ways of it were past and irrecoverable.
3. The Trial of our future state is made by the Preaching of the Gospel unto us; and our compliance with it, or rejection of it. This is that which the Text declares on the one hand and the other; the barren Ground is rejected on this Trial.
4. It was a Fruit of Infinite Grace, Condescension and Mercy to grant a new Trial unto Sinners, under the Curse we had all cast our selves into. There God ⟨p. 77⟩might have left us. So he dealt with the sinning Angels whom he spared not. And had he dealt so with all mankind, who could say unto him, what dost thou? And it is that which we must all answer for, namely, that when we were lost and fallen under the Sentence of the Holy and Righteous Law, God would propose any terms of Peace and Reconciliation unto us and give us a second Trial thereon.