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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.
The Persons therefore included in the particle [Greek or Hebrew], are the 1Patriarchs of the Old Testament. It is true, it is so expressed as that those who were at present real, sincere, sound Believers might be intended, or those who had fallen asleep in the Faith of the Gospel. But as he deals on all occasions with these Hebrews with Instances and Examples out of the Old Testament, as we have seen and considered it at large in the third Chapter, so his immediate expressing of Abraham as the principal of those which he intended, confines his Design unto those under that Dispensation. Plainly he designs them, whom unto the same purpose he enumerates afterwards in particular with the Instances of their Faith, chap. 11. Nor is there any difficulty in the variety of his expressions concerning them. Of those in the Eleventh Chapter he says, that all died in Faith and obtained ⟨p. 127⟩a good report on the account thereof, but received not the Promises, ver. 13, 39. Of those in this place, that through Faith and Patience they inherited the Promises. But it is one thing to receive the Promises, and another to inherit the Promises. By receiving the Promises, chap. 11. the Apostle respects the actual Accomplishment of the great Promise concerning the exhibition of Christ in the Flesh. This they neither did nor could receive who died before his Incarnation. But the inheriting of the Promises here intended, is a real participation of the Grace and Mercy proposed in them with Eternal Glory. This they all received, being saved by Faith even as we, Acts 15. 10, 11. Heb. 4. 2.
The Persons therefore included in the particle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, are the 1Patriarchs of the Old Testament. It is true, it is so expressed as that those who were at present real, sincere, sound Believers might be intended, or those who had fallen asleep in the Faith of the Gospel. But as he deals on all occasions with these Hebrews with Instances and Examples out of the Old Testament, as we have seen and considered it at large in the third Chapter, so his immediate expressing of Abraham as the principal of those which he intended, confines his Design unto those under that Dispensation. Plainly he designs them, whom unto the same purpose he enumerates afterwards in particular with the Instances of their Faith, chap. 11. Nor is there any difficulty in the variety of his expressions concerning them. Of those in the Eleventh Chapter he says, that all died in Faith and obtained