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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
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The Face of all things in Christianity at this day is on this account dreadful and terrible, and bespeaks Desolation to lye at the door: the ground whereunto the waters of the Sanctuary do come, and it is not healed, is left unto Salt and Barrenness for ever. (2) It is a Righteous thing with God Judicially to give up such persons unto all manner of filthy sins and wickedness, that it may be an Aggravation of their Condemnation at the last day. It is the way of God to do so when more inferior manifestation of himself, his Word and Will are rejected, or not improved. So he dealt with the Gentiles for their abuse of the Light of Nature, with the Revelation made of him by the works of Creation and Providence, Rom. 1. 24, 26, 28. And shall not we think that he will, that he doth so deal with persons upon their unprofitableness under, and rejection of the highest and most glorious Revelation of himself, that ever he did make, or ever will in this world unto any of the Sons of men? It may be asked, how doth God thus Judicially give up persons despising the Gospel unto their own Hearts Lusts to do the things that are not convenient? I answer he doth it, (1) By leaving them wholly to themselves, taking off all effectual restraint from them, so spake our blessed Saviour of the Pharisees, Let them alone, saith he, they are blind leaders of the blind, Matth. 15. 14. Reprove them not, help them not, hinder them not, let them alone to take their own course; so saith God, of Israel now given up to sin and ruin, Ephraim is joined to Idols, let him alone, Hos. 4. 14. Ezek. 29. 13. And it is the same Judgement which he denounceth against unprofitable Hearers of the Gospel, Rev. 22. 11. He which is unjust let him be unjust still, and he which is filthy let him be filthy still; go on now in your sins and filthiness without restraint. Now when men are thus left unto themselves, as there is a time when God will so leave Gospel despisers, that he will lay no more restraint upon them, but with-hold the influence of all consideration that should give them any effectual check or control; It were not to be conceived, what an outrage and excess of sin, the cursed corrupted nature of man will run out into, but that the world is filled with the fruits and tokens of it.