A53678:65
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.
2. The Case of that People is deplorable and dangerous, whose Teachers are not able to carry them on, in the knowledge of the mysteries of the Gospel. The Key of Knowledge may be taken away by Ignorance as well as Malice. And so it is with many. And when Knowledge is perished from their Lips who should preserve it, the People must perish for want of that Knowledge. Hos. 4. 6. Math. 15. 14.
3. In our Progress towards an increase in Knowledge, we ought to go on with Diligence and the full bent of our Wills and Affections. I intend hereby to express the sense of [Greek or Hebrew]. It is of a passive signification denoting the Effect; Let us be acied, carried on; but it includes the active use of means for the producing that Effect. And the Duties on our part intended may be reduced unto these Heads.
3. In our Progress towards an increase in Knowledge, we ought to go on with Diligence and the full bent of our Wills and Affections. I intend hereby to express the sense of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. It is of a passive signification denoting the Effect; Let us be acied, carried on; but it includes the active use of means for the producing that Effect. And the Duties on our part intended may be reduced unto these Heads.
(1) Diligence in an Application unto the use of the best means for this End. Hos. 6. 7. Those that would be carried on towards Perfection, must not be careless, or regardless of opportunities of Instruction, nor be detained from them by Sloth or Vanity, nor diverted by the businesses and occasions of this world. Both industry in their pursuit, and choice in the preferring of them before secular Advantages and Avocations, are required hereunto.