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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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How Foreign these Discourses are to the Text and Context is evident to every impartial considerer of it. They are only Chimera's hatched out of the proud ⟨p. 96⟩Imaginations of the merit of their works that these mens minds are prepossessed withal. For (1) Our Apostle treats of those whom he supposeth and judgeth to be in a present good Spiritual Condition. For with respect thereunto he ascribeth unto them things that accompany Salvation, and prescribeth no other Duty unto them for the actual enjoyment of it, but only those of Faith and Love and Ministration unto the Saints, which at present he commendeth in them. What they did formerly that he affirms them to continue in the performance of, You have ministered and you do minister. (2) The Apostle expressly distinguisheth them concerning whom he now speaks, from those who were now fallen off from the Profession of the Gospel, or that state of Justification which the Romanists suppose. (3) He doth not direct these persons to seek after a Recovery out of the Condition wherein they were, but encourageth them unto a continuance therein, and to show the same Diligence unto that purpose, as formerly, to the End, ver. 12. Nothing therefore is more fond than to suppose that any thing is here taught concerning the mortification of good works as to their merit by deadly sin, and their recovery thereof by Penance, a fiction which these men dream of to no purpose.
How Forraign these Discourses are to the Text and Context is evident to every impartial considerer of it. They are only Chimera's hatched out of the proud ⟨p. 96⟩Imaginations of the merit of their works that these mens minds are prepossessed withall. For (1) Our Apostle treats of those whom he supposeth and judgeth to be in a present good Spiritual Condition. For with respect thereunto he ascribeth unto them things that accompany Salvation, and prescribeth no other Duty unto them for the actual enjoyment of it, but only those of Faith and Love and Ministration unto the Saints, which at present he commendeth in them. What they did formerly that he affirms them to continue in the performance of, You have ministred and you do minister. (2) The Apostle expresly distinguisheth them concerning whom he now speaks, from those who were now fallen off from the Profession of the Gospel, or that state of Justification which the Romanists suppose. (3) He doth not direct these persons to seek after a Recovery out of the Condition wherein they were, but incourageth them unto a continuance therein, and to shew the same Diligence unto that purpose, as formerly, to the End, ver. 12. Nothing therefore is more fond than to suppose that any thing is here taught concerning the mortification of good works as to their merit by deadly sin, and their recovery thereof by Penance, a fiction which these men dream of to no purpose.