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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.
Wherefore upon a due compliance with this caution, depends our present Perseverance and our future Salvation. For,
Spiritual Sloth is ruinous of any Profession though otherwise never so hopeful. The 1Apostle was persuaded of good things and such as accompany Salvation concerning these Hebrews; but yet he lets them know that if they intended to enjoy them, they must not be slothful. Sloth is a vicious Affection, and one of the worst that the mind of man is subject unto. For where it takes place and is prevalent, there is no good Principle or Habit abiding. There is not any thing, any Vice amongst men, that the Heathen who built their Directions on the light of Nature, and the Observation of the ways of men in the world, do more severely give in Cautions against. And indeed it were easy to manifest that nothing more increaseth the degeneracy of mankind than this depraved Affection, as being an in-let unto all sordid Nices, and a perfect obstruction unto all virtuous and laudable Enterprises. But what shall he say who comes after the King? Solomon hath so graphically described this Affection with its vile nature and ruinous effects, in sundry passages of the Proverbs, that nothing need or can be added thereunto. Besides it is Spiritual Sloth only that we have occasion to speak unto.
Spiritual Sloth is ruinous of any Profession though otherwise never so hopeful. The 1Apostle was perswaded of good things and such as accompany Salvation concerning these Hebrews; but yet he lets them know that if they intended to enjoy them, they must not be slothful. Sloth is a vicious Affection, and one of the worst that the mind of man is subject unto. For where it takes place and is prevalent, there is no good Principle or Habit abiding. There is not any thing, any Vice amongst men, that the Heathen who built their Directions on the light of Nature, and the Observation of the ways of men in the world, do more severely give in Cautions against. And indeed it were easie to manifest that nothing more increaseth the degeneracy of mankind than this depraved Affection, as being an in-let unto all sordid Nices, and a perfect obstruction unto all virtuous and laudable Enterprizes. But what shall he say who comes after the King? Solomon hath so graphically described this Affection with its vile nature and ruinous effects, in sundry passages of the Proverbs, that nothing need or can be added thereunto. Besides it is Spiritual Sloth only that we have occasion to speak unto.