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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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This is that Love which the Gospel so earnestly commendeth unto, and so indispensably requireth in all the Disciples of Christ. This with its exercise and effects, its Labour and Fruits, is the Glory, Life and Honour of our Profession, without which no other Duties are accepted with God.
This is that Love which the Gospel so earnestly commendeth unto, and so indispensibly requireth in all the Disciples of Christ. This with its exercise and effects, its Labour and Fruits, is the Glory, Life and Honour of our Profession, without which no other Duties are accepted with God.
And the reason is manifest from what hath been spoken why the Apostle giveth this as a ground of his good Persuasion concerning these Hebrews, as that they had an especial Interest in those Better things from which Salvation is inseparable. For if this Love in general be so a Grace of the Gospel, if it so spring and arise from the Love of God in Christ, as that there neither ever was, nor can be the least of it in the world which is not an Emanation from that Love; and if in its especial nature it so particularly relates unto the Spirit of Christ, and our Union with him, it must needs be among the principal Evidences of a good spiritual condition. And the same will yet farther appear if we consider the grounds whereon it is enforced in the Gospel, which are principally these that follow.
And the reason is manifest from what hath been spoken why the Apostle giveth this as a ground of his good Perswasion concerning these Hebrews, as that they had an especial Interest in those Better things from which Salvation is inseparable. For if this Love in general be so a Grace of the Gospel, if it so spring and arise from the Love of God in Christ, as that there neither ever was, nor can be the least of it in the world which is not an Emanation from that Love; and if in its especial nature it so particularly relates unto the Spirit of Christ, and our Union with him, it must needs be among the principal Evidences of a good spiritual condition. And the same will yet farther appear if we consider the grounds whereon it is inforced in the Gospel, which are principally these that follow.