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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.
However here is certainly an opposition unto what was before affirmed concerning others; And that may be reduced unto two Heads. (1) That they were barren and destitute of all saving Grace and Fruits. (2) That they should in the End be destroyed. These better things must be opposed to the one, or other of these, or unto them both. If they are opposed unto the first, then especial saving Grace and Fruit-bearing, such as are peculiar unto Gods Elect proceeding from the real Sanctification of the Spirit, such as no perishing gifted Hypocrites can be partakers of, are intended. If unto this latter, then those better thing respect not their Qualification but their Condition; that is, freedom from the Curse and Wrath of God, and from perishing under them. I am persuaded it will go better with you, than with such Apostates. It may be both are included: but the first is certainly intended, namely, that these Hebrews were not barren but such as brought forth the saving Fruits of the Spirit of Grace.
However here is certainly an opposition unto what was before affirmed concerning others; And that may be reduced unto two Heads. (1) That they were barren and destitute of all saving Grace and Fruits. (2) That they should in the End be destroyed. These better things must be opposed to the one, or other of these, or unto them both. If they are opposed unto the first, then especial saving Grace and Fruit-bearing, such as are peculiar unto Gods Elect proceeding from the real Sanctification of the Spirit, such as no perishing gifted Hypocrites can be partakers of, are intended. If unto this latter, then those better thing respect not their Qualification but their Condition; that is, freedom from the Curse and Wrath of God, and from perishing under them. I am perswaded it will go better with you, than with such Apostates. It may be both are included: but the first is certainly intended, namely, that these Hebrews were not barren but such as brought forth the saving Fruits of the Spirit of Grace.
For of these things it is added, [Greek or Hebrew]. Such as accompany Salvation; literally, such as have Salvation, that is, such as have saving Grace in them, 1