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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
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.
The other ground of his Persuasion is taken from the Righteousness of God; God is not unrighteous to forget your work. I intimated before that the word used 1by the Apostle to express the frame of his mind in this matter, [Greek or Hebrew], we are persuaded, ver. 9. is applied sometimes to denote the infallible certainty of Faith, and sometimes the moral certainty of Charity. In this place it hath respect unto a double object or reason. (1) What was in the professing Hebrews, their Faith and Love. Hereof he could have no assurance or certainty beyond a moral persuasion, or the satisfaction of a charitable Judgement. But on this supposition his persuasion had another object, namely, the Righteousness of God in the stability of his Promises, whence he had infallible assurance, or did conclude infallibly unto what he was persuaded of.
The other ground of his Perswasion is taken from the Righteousness of God; God is not unrighteous to forget your work. I intimated before that the word used 1by the Apostle to express the frame of his mind in this matter, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, we are perswaded, ver. 9. is applied sometimes to denote the infallible certainty of Faith, and sometimes the moral certainty of Charity. In this place it hath respect unto a double object or reason. (1) What was in the professing Hebrews, their Faith and Love. Hereof he could have no assurance or certainty beyond a moral perswasion, or the satisfaction of a charitable Judgement. But on this supposition his perswasion had another object, namely, the Righteousness of God in the stability of his Promises, whence he had infallible assurance, or did conclude infallibly unto what he was perswaded of.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉