A53678:600
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.
And the Duty it self he expresseth by [Greek or Hebrew], idem studium, the same diligent 1endeavour. Chrysostom much insists on the Apostles Wisdom in this expression, the same diligence: for by it he both insinuates his approbation of what they had done already, and manifests that he required nothing of them to secure their future condition, but what they had already experience of. You have used diligence in this matter, continue so to do, which yet is not so to be interpreted as though the Apostle limited them unto their former measures. But warning them to remit in nothing which before they had engaged into, he encourageth them to proceed and grow therein. That indeed which the Apostle approves in them and exhorts them unto a continuance in, is the work of Faith and labour of Love in ministering unto ⟨p. 119⟩the Saints. But here he expresseth the manner wherein they had attended unto those Duties, and which they must continue in unless they intended to desert the Duties themselves; namely, with diligence and alacrity of mind. For such were the Oppositions and Difficulties that they would assuredly meet withal, as we have before declared, that unless they used all diligence and watchfulness, they would more or less faint in their Duty. And we may observe that,
And the Duty it self he expresseth by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, idem studium, the same diligent 1endeavour. Chrysostome much insists on the Apostles Wisdom in this expression, the same diligence: for by it he both insinuates his approbation of what they had done already, and manifests that he required nothing of them to secure their future condition, but what they had already experience of. You have used diligence in this matter, continue so to do, which yet is not so to be interpreted as though the Apostle limited them unto their former measures. But warning them to remit in nothing which before they had ingaged into, he encourageth them to proceed and grow therein. That indeed which the Apostle approves in them and exhorts them unto a continuance in, is the work of Faith and labour of Love in ministring unto ⟨p. 119⟩