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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.
But wherefore then is God said to swear, who as the Apostle speaks, can have no greater to swear by, no Superior unto whom in swearing he should have respect? It is because as to Infinite Omniscience, Power and Righteousness, the thing respected in an Oath, God is that ⟨p. 146⟩Essentially in and unto himself, which he is in a way of external Government unto his Creatures. Wherefore when he will condescend to give us the utmost security and assurance of any thing which our Nature is capable of antecedent unto actual enjoyment, in and by the express engagement of his Holiness, Veracity and Immutability, he is said to swear or to confirm his Word with his Oath.
But wherefore then is God said to swear, who as the Apostle speaks, can have no greater to swear by, no Superiour unto whom in swearing he should have respect? It is because as to Infinite Omniscience, Power and Righteousness, the thing respected in an Oath, God is that ⟨p. 146⟩Essentially in and unto himself, which he is in a way of external Government unto his Creatures. Wherefore when he will condescend to give us the utmost security and assurance of any thing which our Nature is capable of antecedent unto actual enjoyment, in and by the express ingagement of his Holiness, Veracity and Immutability, he is said to swear or to confirm his Word with his Oath.
The end and use of this Oath of God is so fully expressed ver. 17. that I must thither refer the consideration of it.
Ver. 15. The Event of this Promise giving, and Oath of God on the part of Abraham is declared. And so after he had patiently endured he obtained the Promises.