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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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And this can be from no other Principle but the Spirit and Divine Power of God, giving Testimony thereby unto the Lord Christ whose Disciples they are.
2. Our Right unto, our Privilege in, and Evidence of our being the Disciples of Christ, depends on our mutual Love, Joh. 14. 34, 35. A new Commandment I give unto you, that you love one another, as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my Disciples if you have love one to another. This especial Commandment of Christ concerning mutual love among his Disciples is here and elsewhere called a new Commandment. When mankind by sin fell off from the love of God, and out of it, from loving him and being loved of him, they fell into all manner of discord and enmity among themselves, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another, Tit. 3. 3. And from the same root still springs all contention. From whence come Wars and Fightings, come they not hence, even from your Lusts, Jam. 4. 1. In the former Revelations of the Will of ⟨p. 105⟩God as in the Law, there was mutual Love commanded, Envy, Hatred, and Revenge being forbidden. But yet there was a great defect and weakness in this matter, partly in the obscurity of the Law, partly out of some forbearances which God was pleased to exercise towards that carnal people by reason of the hardness of their hearts; and partly out of their darkness that they did not understand the Spirituality and Holiness of the Commands. But the principal Imperfection of the Law in this matter was, that it gave no Example of that Love which is necessary to restore us into that condition of the Love of God and one another which we fell from. This was reserved for Christ that in all things he might have the pre-eminence. Until he set us the example of it in his inexpressible Love to us which is so frequently proposed unto our imitation, we could not know what kind of Love it was wherewith we ought to love one another. So saith he here, That you love one another as I have loved you; see