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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 whole of what I intend is expressed by the Apostle John, 1 Epist. cap. 4. ver. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Beloved let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God; He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is Love. In this was manifested the Love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the Propitiation for our sins; Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another; No man hath seen God at any time, if we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his Love is perfected in us.
All that we have before affirmed and much more, is here declared by the Apostle. It is Gods being Love himself which is the Eternal Spring of all Love in us. Neither could we have any thing of it, or interest in it, without some glorious effect and manifestation of the Love of God, which he also gave in sending his Son ⟨p. 102⟩to be a Propitiation for our sins. And the Love which proceeds from hence, hath all the glorious Properties here ascribed unto it. Wherefore there is no such way and means whereby we may express the distinguishing Light, Grace and Power of the Gospel, no such Evidence of the reality of our Interest in God, as Love, or in the Love of God by Christ, as by and in our own Love to him and his.
The Mystical Body of Christ is the second great mystery of the Gospel. The first is his Person, that great mystery of Godliness God manifest in the Flesh. In this mystical Body we have Communion with the Head, and with all the Members; with the Head by Faith, and with the Members by Love. Neither will the first complete our Interest in that Body without the latter. Hence are they frequently conjoined by our Apostle, not only as those which are necessary unto, but as those which Essentially constitute the Union of the whole mystical Body and Communion therein,