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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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(3) A Fruitfulness proportionable unto the excellency of their Gifts. He who had received five Talents was not only obliged to Trade with them, but to get five Talents more. The increase of one or two Talents would not have served his turn. To whom much is given, of him not somewhat, but much is required. The hiding of many Talents is a sin whereof there is no Instance in the Scripture; it is a sin that hath a greatness in it not to be supposed; and those who may be concerned in it, ought to tremble with the Apprehensions of it. Our Lord is coming, and alas there is none of us who have traded with his Talents as we ought to have done. We hope that in his infinite mercy and compassion he will spare and pardon, and accept of that little which we have endeavoured after in sincerity; but in the mean time we ought always to consider that labour and fruitfulness ought to be proportioned unto what we have received. But yet these are not the Better things here directly intended. For from them, or any thing that is in the best of them, no such conclusion can be made as that here by our Apostle, seeing he had showed before, that they might all perish and be lost.
(3) A Fruitfulness proportionable unto the excellency of their Gifts. He who had received five Talents was not only obliged to Trade with them, but to get five Talents more. The increase of one or two Talents would not have served his turn. To whom much is given, of him not somewhat, but much is required. The hiding of many Talents is a sin whereof there is no Instance in the Scripture; it is a sin that hath a greatness in it not to be supposed; and those who may be concerned in it, ought to tremble with the Apprehensions of it. Our Lord is coming, and alas there is none of us who have traded with his Talents as we ought to have done. We hope that in his infinite mercy and compassion he will spare and pardon, and accept of that little which we have endeavoured after in sincerity; but in the mean time we ought always to consider that labour and fruitfulness ought to be proportioned unto what we have received. But yet these are not the Better things here directly intended. For from them, or any thing that is in the best of them, no such conclusion can be made as that here by our Apostle, seeing he had shewed before, that they might all perish and be lost.