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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
Exegesis of chapter 6 › Exegesis of verses 13, 14, 15, 16: Verse 13, 14, 15, 16.
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.
In both these things were they Typical of the more numerous Subjects of the Kingdom of Christ, and of his spiritual Conquest for them and in them of all their spiritual Adversaries. See Luke 1. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75.
In these two Branches of the Promise the Faith of Abraham was greatly exercised as unto the Accomplishment of them. For as unto the first or multiplication of his Posterity, though he lived after this about 70 years, yet he never saw any more than two persons, Isaac and Jacob that were interested in this Promise; For although he had other Children and Posterity by them, yet in Isaac only was his Seed to be called, as to this Promise. He had therefore during his own days no outward visible pledge or appearance of its Accomplishment; and yet however he lived and died in the Faith thereof. And as unto the latter, of their prosperity and success, he was told before, that they should be in Affliction and Bondage for 400 years. Yet looking by Faith through all these difficulties in its proper season, he inherited the Promise.
And he was a great Example herein unto all Believers under the New Testament; For there are many Promises remaining as yet unaccomplished, and which at present as in other Ages, seem not only to be remote from but as unto all outward means to be cast under an impossibility of accomplishment. Such are those as concerning the calling of the Jews, the coming in of the fullness of the Gentiles, with the ⟨p. 139⟩enlargement and establishment of the Kingdom of Christ in this world. Concerning all these things, some are apt to despond, some irregularly to make haste, and some to reject and despise them. But the Faith of Abraham would give us present satisfaction in these things and assured expectation of their Accomplishment in their proper season.