A53678:445
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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(3) Gods dealings with barren Apostates being principally in spiritual Judgements, the issue whereof is the total removal of the Gospel from them, he will not do it at once, because others may be yet mixed among them unto whom he will have the means of Grace continued. This Abraham laid down in temporal Judgements as an unquestionable maxim of Divine Right, That God would not destroy the Righteous with the wicked, Gen. 18. 23, 25. which Rule yet by the way, is confined unto that kind of destruction which was to be a standing token, and pledge of the last final Judgement, and the Damnation of all ungodly men. For in other cases it will admit of some extraordinary exception, but this is the general way of Gods procedure in all Judgements Spiritual and Temporal. Now if when men openly manifest their barrenness, and daily bring forth Thorns and Briars, if God should immediately remove the Word, whilst there are amongst them a People also that are really fruitful unto his Glory; it cannot be, but that in an ordinary course of his Providence they must suffer with the rest, and that before God hath fulfilled the whole works of his Grace towards them.
(3) Gods dealings with barren Apostates being principally in spiritual Judgements, the issue whereof is the total removal of the Gospel from them, he will not do it at once, because others may be yet mixed among them unto whom he will have the means of Grace continued. This Abraham laid down in temporal Judgements as an unquestionable maxime of Divine Right, That God would not destroy the Righteous with the wicked, Gen. 18. 23, 25. which Rule yet by the way, is consined unto that kind of destruction which was to be a standing token, and pledge of the last final Judgement, and the Damnation of all ungodly men. For in other cases it will admit of some extraordinary exception, but this is the general way of Gods procedure in all Judgements Spiritual and Temporal. Now if when men openly manifest their barrenness, and daily bring forth Thorns and Briars, if God should immediately remove the Word, whilst there are amongst them a People also that are really fruitful unto his Glory; it cannot be, but that in an ordinary course of his Providence they must suffer with the rest, and that before God hath fulfilled the whole works of his Grace towards them.