A53678:597
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.
3. The Persons exhorted unto the Duty following, are expressed by [Greek or Hebrew], 1every one of you. He had so a care of the whole Flock, as to be solicitous for the good of every individual person among them. As our Lord Jesus Christ gives an account unto his Father, that of all those who were committed unto his personal Ministry in this world, he had not lost any one; only the Son of Perdition, he who was designed to Destruction; so our Apostle laboured that if it were possible not one of those whom he watched over should miscarry. And it is of great advantage when we can so manage our Ministry that no one of those that are committed unto us, may have any just cause to think themselves disregarded. And moreover he shows hereby that the Argument here insisted on concerned them all. For he doth not suppose that any one of them were in such a condition of security and perfection, as not to stand in need of the utmost diligence for their preservation and progress; nor any to have so fallen under decays, but that in the use of diligence they might be recovered. So should the Love and Care of Ministers be extended unto all the Individuals of their Flocks, with an especial regard unto their respective Conditions, that none on the one hand grow secure, nor any on the other hand despond or be discouraged.
3. The Persons exhorted unto the Duty following, are expressed by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 1every one of you. He had so a care of the whole Flock, as to be solicitous for the good of every individual person among them. As our Lord Jesus Christ gives an account unto his Father, that of all those who were committed unto his personal Ministry in this world, he had not lost any one; only the Son of Perdition, he who was designed to Destruction; so our Apostle laboured that if it were possible not one of those whom he watched over should miscarry. And it is of great advantage when we can so mannage our Ministry that no one of those that are committed unto us, may have any just cause to think themselves disregarded. And moreover he shews hereby that the Argument here insisted on concerned them all. For he doth not suppose that any one of them were in such a condition of security and perfection, as not to stand in need of the utmost diligence for their preservation and progress; nor any to have so fallen under decays, but that in the use of diligence they might be recovered. So should the Love and Care of Ministers be extended unto all the Individuals of their Flocks, with an especial regard unto their respective Conditions, that none on the one hand grow secure, nor any on the other hand despond or be discouraged.