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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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That you be not slothful, but followers of them, (their Example) who through Faith and patient long-suffering inherit the Promises.
This Verse puts a full close to the former Exhortation built on the description given of unprofitable and Apostate Professors. And here is withal an entrance made into a discourse of somewhat another nature, but intended and applied unto the same end and purpose. We may therefore consider it as a continuation of the former Exhortation, enforced with a new Argument of great importance. For,
This Verse puts a full close to the former Exhortation built on the description given of unprofitable and Apostate Professors. And here is withall an entrance made into a discourse of somewhat another nature, but intended and applied unto the same end and purpose. We may therefore consider it as a continuation of the former Exhortation, inforced with a new Argument of great importance. For,
1. The Apostle gives a Caution against an Evil or Vice directly opposite unto the Duty he had been pressing unto, and which if admitted, would obstruct its discharge, That you be not slothful. And therein the series of that discourse hath its connection with the beginning of ver. 11. We desire, that you be diligent, and that you be not slothful; diligence and sloth being the opposite virtue and vice which are the matter of his Exhortation.
1. The Apostle gives a Caution against an Evil or Vice directly opposite unto the Duty he had been pressing unto, and which if admitted, would obstruct its discharge, That you be not slothful. And therein the series of that discourse hath its connexion with the beginning of ver. 11. We desire, that you be diligent, and that you be not slothful; diligence and sloth being the opposite virtue and vice which are the matter of his Exhortation.