A53678:469
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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For Charity hopeth all things, namely, that are good, if we have no certain evidence to the contrary. And thus in general we may have this persuasion concerning all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. We have no obligation indeed hereunto, towards such as visibly and evidently walk unworthy of that high Calling whereby we are called. For concerning such our Apostle assures us, that whatever they profess, they are Enemies of the Cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is their shame, who mind earthly things, Phil. 3. 18, 19. It is a dishonour, a reproach to Christ and the Gospel that we should persuade our selves that they are his Disciples, and Members of his mystical Body, whom we see to walk after the manner of the world, and to have their Conversation in the Lusts of the Flesh. These we are still to Love as those who once had, (and are yet capable of the renovation of) the Image of God upon them. But they proclaim themselves destitute of all those qualifications which are the formal object and reason of this peculiar Love.
For Charity hopeth all things, namely, that are good, if we have no certain evidence to the contrary. And thus in general we may have this perswasion concerning all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. We have no obligation indeed hereunto, towards such as visibly and evidently walk unworthy of that high Calling whereby we are called. For concerning such our Apostle assures us, that whatever they profess, they are Enemies of the Cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is their shame, who mind earthly things, Phil. 3. 18, 19. It is a dishonour, a reproach to Christ and the Gospel that we should perswade our selves that they are his Disciples, and Members of his mystical Body, whom we see to walk after the manner of the world, and to have their Conversation in the Lusts of the Flesh. These we are still to Love as those who once had, (and are yet capable of the renovation of) the Image of God upon them. But they proclaim themselves destitute of all those qualifications which are the formal object and reason of this peculiar Love.