A53678:558
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.
It is a due regard unto the Name of God that gives Life, Spirituality and Acceptance 1unto all the Duties of Love which we perform towards others. Great things have been done in the world, with a great appearance of Love, which yet have been all lost as to the Glory of God, and the spiritual Advantage of them by whom they have been done. Some have been lost from a principle of Superstition, some from a design of Merit, some from vain Glory or a desire of Reputation, by being seen of men. And many other ways there are whereby men may lose the benefit of what they have wrought. Now whereas this labour of Love is a Duty which hath so many difficulties attending it as we have before declared, it is of the highest concernment unto us to take care that what we do therein be not lost. Unless it be done with respect unto the Command of God, and so be a part of the Obedience of Faith, unless it be influenced with a regard of their Relation unto God, and his ⟨p. 111⟩peculiar concernment in them towards whom our Love is exercised, it will not endure the Trial, when the Fire of it shall consume all Hay and Stubble. What we do in this kind is so to be done as that the Lord Christ may own it as done unto himself in the first place.
- 1Obser. 1.
Again, There is the Object of this Love in its exercise, and they are [Greek or Hebrew], the Saints. And they are considered either as to their general condition and qualification, which is expressed, they are Saints; or as unto their particular state and circumstances, they are such as stand in need to be ministered unto.
Again, There is the Object of this Love in its exercise, and they are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Saints. And they are considered either as to their general condition and qualification, which is expressed, they are Saints; or as unto their particular state and circumstances, they are such as stand in need to be ministred unto.