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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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The sin of man had brought all things into a Condition of Vanity and Bondage, which they groan to be delivered from, Rom. 8. 20, 21, 22. And the Earth the common Mother of them all, as it were to revenge it self on men, brings forth nothing but Thorns and Thistles, Gen. 3. 18. and yields not her strength to his labour, Gen. 4. 12. Hence is all that vanity, vexation, and sore travail which the life of man is filled withal. After the entrance of this disorder and confusion, there was nothing of true original Love in the world, nor was it by any means attainable. For it all arose from the Love of God, and was animated by our Love unto him. But now all things were filled with Tokens and Evidences of the Anger, Displeasure, and Curse of God for sin. And men were wholly alienated from the Life of God. No new Spring or Life can be given unto Love, but by a new discovery, that God was Love, and had a Love for us. For so the Apostle tells us, Herein is Love, not that we loved God but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the Propitiation of our sins, 1 Joh. 4. 10. But if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another, ver. 11. No Love could there be, until a fresh Revelation was made that God is Love; for the first which he had made in the Creation was utterly lost. And this was done by Jesus Christ.
The sin of man had brought all things into a Condition of Vanity and Bondage, which they groan to be delivered from, Rom. 8. 20, 21, 22. And the Earth the common Mother of them all, as it were to revenge it self on men, brings forth nothing but Thorns and Thistles, Gen. 3. 18. and yields not her strength to his labour, Gen. 4. 12. Hence is all that vanity, vexation, and sore travail which the life of man is filled withall. After the entrance of this disorder and confusion, there was nothing of true original Love in the world, nor was it by any means attainable. For it all arose from the Love of God, and was animated by our Love unto him. But now all things were filled with Tokens and Evidences of the Anger, Displeasure, and Curse of God for sin. And men were wholly alienated from the Life of God. No new Spring or Life can be given unto Love, but by a new discovery, that God was Love, and had a Love for us. For so the Apostle tells us, Herein is Love, not that we loved God but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the Propitiation of our sins,