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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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(1) It is not an unfrequent Temptation unto Believers, that God so far disregards them as not to take care of Graces or Duties in them, to cherish and preserve them. See the complaints of the Church to this purpose, Isa. 40. 27, 28. chap. 49. 14. God hath forgotten me. This is here denied; God is not unrighteous to forget us or our work, so as not to cherish and preserve it. So the Apostle expresseth the same Persuasion concerning the Philippians as he doth here of the Hebrews, chap. 1. 6. Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you, will preserve it until the day of Jesus Christ; He is not unrighteous to forget it. God hath in the Covenant of Grace promised to preserve the Faith and Love of his People, that they should not perish nor be lost. Wherefore having begun a good work, and you having made some good progress in compliance with his Grace, he is not unrighteous so as to forget his Covenant Engagement, but will preserve you and your Graces in you unto the End; which is the sum of that great Prayer of the Apostle for all Believers, 1 Pet. 5. 10.
(1) It is not an unfrequent Temptation unto Believers, that God so far disregards them as not to take care of Graces or Duties in them, to cherish and preserve them. See the complaints of the Church to this purpose, Isa. 40. 27, 28. chap. 49. 14. God hath forgotten me. This is here denied; God is not unrighteous to forget us or our work, so as not to cherish and preserve it. So the Apostle expresseth the same Perswasion concerning the Philippians as he doth here of the Hebrews, chap. 1. 6. Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you, will preserve it until the day of Jesus Christ; He is not unrighteous to forget it. God hath in the Covenant of Grace promised to preserve the Faith and Love of his People, that they should not perish nor be lost. Wherefore having begun a good work, and you having made some good progress in compliance with his Grace, he is not unrighteous so as to forget his Covenant Ingagement, but will preserve you and your Graces in you unto the End; which is the sum of that great Prayer of the Apostle for all Believers,