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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.
2. The Faithfulness of God in Covenant, whereon the final preservation of all true Believers doth depend.
These are the Grounds of that persuasion concerning their state and condition which he expressed in the foregoing words. Hence that persuasion of his was of a mixed nature, and had something in it of a Divine Faith, and somewhat only of a moral certainty. As he drew his conclusion from, or built his persuasion on Gods Faithfulness or Righteousness, so there was in it an infallible Assurance of Faith that could not deceive him. For what we believe concerning God as he hath revealed himself, is infallible. But as his Persuasion had respect unto the Faith, Love and Obedience which he had observed in them, so it was only a moral Assurance, and such as in its own nature might fail. For God only is [Greek or Hebrew]; and we who judge by the outward evidences of invisible things may be deceived. The Proposition from Gods Faithfulness is of infallible Truth; the Application of it unto these Hebrews of moral Evidence only. Such a Persuasion we may have in this case, which is prevalent against all Objections, a certain Rule for the performance of all Duties on our parts towards others; and such had the Apostle concerning these Hebrews.
These are the Grounds of that perswasion concerning their state and condition which he expressed in the foregoing words. Hence that perswasion of his was of a mixt nature, and had something in it of a Divine Faith, and somewhat only of a moral certainty. As he drew his conclusion from, or built his perswasion on Gods Faithfulness or Righteousness, so there was in it an infallible Assurance of Faith that could not deceive him. For what we believe concerning God as he hath revealed himself, is infallible. But as his Perswasion had respect unto the Faith, Love and Obedience which he had observed in them, so it was only a moral Assurance, and such as in its own nature might fail. For God only is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; and we who judge by the outward evidences of invisible things may be deceived. The Proposition from Gods Faithfulness is of infallible Truth; the Application of it unto these Hebrews of moral Evidence only. Such a Perswasion we may have in this case, which is prevalent against all Objections, a certain Rule for the performance of all Duties on our parts towards others; and such had the Apostle concerning these Hebrews.