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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.
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.
2. He gives a new direction and encouragement unto them for the performance of the Duty exhorted unto, which also guides them in the manner of its performance. And herein he coucheth an Introduction to a discourse of another nature which immediately ensues, as was observed. But be ye followers.
3. This direction and encouragement consists in the proposal of an Example of others unto them, who performed the Duty which he exhorts them unto. And as for their direction he declares unto them how they did it, even by Faith and Patience; so for their Encouragement he minds them of what they obtained thereby, or do so, they inherited the Promises of God.