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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 manner of arriving at this End, he expresseth by [Greek or Hebrew], and in this word is 1the Rhetorical Communication mentioned. For either he ascribes that unto himself with them, which belonged only unto them; or that unto them which belonged only unto him; or what belonged unto them both, but in a different way; namely, unto him in Teaching, unto them in Learning. Let us be carried on. The word is emphatical, intimating such a kind of progress as a Ship makes when it is under Sail. Let us be carried on; that is with the full bent of our Minds and Affections, with the utmost Endeavours of our whole Souls. We have abode long enough by the Shore; let us now hoist our Sails and launch forth into the Deep. And we may hence learn:
The manner of arriving at this End, he expresseth by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and in this word is 1the Rhetorical Communication mentioned. For either he ascribes that unto himself with them, which belonged only unto them; or that unto them which belonged only unto him; or what belonged unto them both, but in a different way; namely, unto him in Teaching, unto them in Learning. Let us be carried on. The word is emphatical, intimating such a kind of progress as a Ship makes when it is under Sail. Let us be carried on; that is with the full bent of our Minds and Affections, with the utmost Endeavours of our whole Souls. We have abode long enough by the Shore; let us now hoist our Sails and launch forth into the Deep. And we may hence learn:
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
(1) That it is a necessary Duty of the Dispensers of the Gospel, to excite their Hearers, by all pressing Considerations, to make a Progress in the Knowledge of the Truth. Thus dealeth our Apostle with these Hebrews. He would not have them always stand at the Porch, but enter into the Sanctuary, and behold the hidden Glories of the House of God. Elsewhere he complains of them who are always Learning, that is in the way of it, under the means of it, but yet by reason of their negligence and carelessness in the Application of their minds unto them, do never come [Greek or Hebrew],