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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.
The necessary qualifications of a lawful and a solemn Oath are so expressed by the Prophet as nothing need to be added to them, nothing can be taken from them, Jer. 4. 2. Thou shalt swear the Lord liveth, that is, interpose the name of the living God, when thou swearest, in Truth, in Judgement and in Righteousness. (1) Truth is required in it, in opposition unto falsehood and guile. Where this is otherwise, God is called to be a Witness unto a lye; which is to deny his Being. For he whom we serve is the God of Truth, yea Truth it self Essentially. (2) It must be in Judgement also that we swear; not lightly, not rashly, not without a just cause, that which is so in it self, and which appears unto us so to be; or by Judgement the contest it self unto whose determination an Oath is interposed, may be intended. Thou shalt swear in such a case only as wherein something of weight comes to be determined in Judgement. Without this qualification swearing is accompanied with irreverence and contempt of God, as though his Name was to be invocated on every slight and common occasion. (3) In Righteousness we must also swear, which respects the matter and end of the Oath, namely, that it be Right and Equity which we intend to confirm; or else we avouch God as giving countenance unto our wickedness and injustice.
The necessary qualifications of a lawful and a solemn Oath are so expressed by the Prophet as nothing need to be added to them, nothing can be taken from them, Jer. 4. 2. Thou shalt swear the Lord liveth, that is, interpose the name of the living God, when thou swearest, in Truth, in Judgement and in Righteousness. (1) Truth is required in it, in opposition unto falshood and guile. Where this is otherwise, God is called to be a Witness unto a lye; which is to deny his Being. For he whom we serve is the God of Truth, yea Truth it self Essentially. (2) It must be in Judgement also that we swear; not lightly, not rashly, not without a just cause, that which is so in it self, and which appears unto us so to be; or by Judgement the contest it self unto whose determination an Oath is interposed, may be intended. Thou shalt swear in such a case only as wherein something of weight comes to be determined in Judgement. Without this qualification swearing is accompanied with irreverence and contempt of God, as though his Name was to be invocated on every slight and common occasion. (3) In Righteousness we must also swear, which respects the matter and end of the Oath, namely, that it be Right and Equity which we intend to confirm; or else we avouch God as giving countenance unto our wickedness and injustice.