A53678:56
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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Again; Some important Doctrines of Truth may in the Preaching of the Gospel, be omitted for a Season; but none must ever be forgotten or neglected. So deals the Apostle in this Place, and Light hath been sufficiently given us hereinto, by what hath already been discoursed.
2. That which is passed over here, he calls, [Greek or Hebrew] Sermonem de Christo initiantem. Sermo exordij Christi. Sermo quo instituuntur rudes in Christo. We say, 1the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ; I fear somewhat improperly. For the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ indefinitely, must include all, at least the most principal of those which are so: [Greek or Hebrew] the word; that is, the Word Preached. So [Greek or Hebrew] is frequently used. 1 Cor. 1. 18. And the Name Christ, is not taken here Personally, neither efficiently, as though, of Christ, should be whereof Christ is the Author, nor Objectively concerning Christ; but it is taken Metonymically for the Doctrine of the Gospel, and the Profession of that Religion which was taught by him. So that the word of Christ is no more but the Doctrine of the Gospel as Preached and Taught. [Greek or Hebrew] containeth a Limitation of this Doctrine with respect unto some parts of it. That is, those which men usually and ordinarily were first instructed in; and which from their own Nature it was necessary that so they should be. These are here called the word of the Beginning of Christ. And what these Doctrines are, the Apostle declares particularly in the End of this Verse, and in the next, where we shall enquire into them. They are the same with the first Principles of the Oracles of God, whereof mention was made before. Having ⟨p. 5⟩declared what for the present he would omit and pass by, although there was some appearance of a necessity to the contrary, the Apostle expresseth what his present design in general was, and what was the End which therein he aimed at. Now this was that, not being retarded by the Repetition or Reinculcation of the things which he would therefore omit, they might, he in Teaching, they in Learning, go on to Perfection. And two things must be considered. (1) The End intended; (2) The manner of pressing towards it.