A53678:660
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.
They inherited [Greek or Hebrew], the Promises. Camero and Grotius on this Text observe, that where the Fathers under the Old Testament are spoken of in this matter, there the Promises are mentioned; But where Believers under the New Testament are spoken of, there it is called the Promise in the singular number. I shall not give their Reasons why it is so, because they are certainly mistaken in their Observation. For both is the Promise on the one hand mentioned with respect unto them, as Heb. 11. 39. and the Promises frequently with respect unto us, 2 Cor. 7. 1. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Wherefore those expressions are used promiscuously, as is evident by our Apostle, chap. 11. ver. 13, and 39. Because they all sprang from one Original Promise, and all centred in him, in whom and by whom they were to be accomplished and made effectual, being all yea and Amen in him; and because that one which concerned his Person and Mediation did virtually include all the rest, they are all of them frequently intended and included under the name of the Promise in the singular number. But because God was pleased to let out as it were sundry Rivulets of Grace and Bounty, originally stored in the first great Promise, by several particular grants and instances, partly for the Representation of that fullness of Grace which he intended to exhibit thereby; partly for the Encouragement of our Faith and its Direction in the Application of the Grace promised, on various particular occasions; And because he was pleased frequently to renew the same great original Promise, as to Abraham and David; there are many of them, and are called the Promises; and by reason of their Union in the same Covenant whoever is really interested in any one of them, is so in all.
They inherited 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Promises. Camero and Grotius on this Text observe, that where the Fathers under the Old Testament are spoken of in this matter, there the Promises are mentioned; But where Believers under the New Testament are spoken of, there it is called the Promise in the singular number. I shall not give their Reasons why it is so, because they are certainly mistaken in their Observation. For both is the Promise on the one hand mentioned with respect unto them, as