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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.
So here in one place swearing is forbidden, in others it is allowed, and examples thereof are proposed unto us; wherefore it cannot be swearing absolutely, that is intended in either place; but rash causeless swearing is condemned in one, and swearing in weighty causes, for just ends, with the properties of an Oath before insisted on, is recommended and approved in the other. I shall shut up the discourse with three Corollaries from it.
(1) That the custom of using Oaths, Swearing, Cursing or Imprecation in common Communication, is not only an open transgression of the Third Commandment which God hath threatened to revenge, but it is a practical Renunciation also of all the Authority of Jesus Christ who hath so expressly interdicted it.
(1) That the custom of using Oathes, Swearing, Cursing or Imprecation in common Communication, is not only an open transgression of the Third Commandment which God hath threatened to revenge, but it is a practical Renunciation also of all the Authority of Jesus Christ who hath so expresly interdicted it.
(2) Whereas swearing by the Name of God in Truth, Righteousness and Judgement is an Ordinance of God for the end of Strife amongst men; Perjury is justly reckoned among the worst and highest of sins, and is that which reflects the greatest dishonour on God, and tendeth to the ruin of Humane Society.
(2) Whereas swearing by the Name of God in Truth, Righteousness and Judgement is an Ordinance of God for the end of Strife amongst men; Perjury is justly reckoned among the worst and highest of sins, and is that which reflects the greatest dishonour on God, and tendeth to the ruine of Humane Society.