A53678:569
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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(2) He maketh way hereby for the vigorous fruitful exercise of all the Graces of his Spirit, namely, in the various conditions whereinto the Members of the Church are cast. And let every one look to it and know, that according unto his outward condition in the world, whether it be of want or abundance, there is peculiar exercise of Grace unto the Glory of God required of him. It is expected from all that are high or low, rich or poor, free or in distress, not only that they live in the exercise of all Grace in general, but also that they diligently endeavour an abounding fruitfulness in those Graces, whose exercise their especial condition calleth for. And secondly we are here taught that,
The great Trial of our Love consists in our regard unto the Saints that are in distress. 1That is the Foundation of the commendation of the Love of these Hebrews; they ministered unto them. Either Love or at least an appearance of Love will be easily preserved where we have little or no need of one another. But when the exercise of it proves costly, when it puts us unto charge or trouble, or into danger, as it doth more or less when it is exercised towards them that are in distress, then is it brought unto its trial. And in such a season we have experience that the Love of many is so far from bringing forth more fruit, as that the very leaves of it fall off, and they give over its profession. Wherefore,
The great Trial of our Love consists in our regard unto the Saints that are in distress. 1That is the Foundation of the commendation of the Love of these Hebrews; they ministred unto them. Either Love or at least an appearance of Love will be easily preserved where we have little or no need of one another. But when the exercise of it proves costly, when it puts us unto charge or trouble, or into danger, as it doth more or less when it is exercised towards them that are in distress, then is it brought unto its trial. And in such a season we have experience that the Love of many is so far from bringing forth more fruit, as that the very leaves of it fall off, and they give over its profession. Wherefore,