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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 17, 18, 19, 20: Verse 17, 18, 19, 20.
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 Sovereign Will of God is the sole spring and cause of all the Grace, Mercy and Consolation, that Believers are made partakers of in this world. So is it here proposed; 1thereinto alone is all Grace and Consolation resolved. God wills it ⟨p. 156⟩should be so. Man being fallen off from the Grace and Love of God, and being every way come short of his Glory, had no ways left in nor by himself, to obtain any Grace, any Relief, any Mercy, any Consolation. Neither was there any the least Obligation on God, in point of Justice, Promise or Covenant, to give any Grace unto, to bestow any Mercy or Favour upon Apostatized sinners; wherefore those things could have no rise, spring or cause, but in a free gracious Act of the Sovereign Will and Pleasure of God. And thereunto in the Scripture are they constantly assigned, whether absolutely, that Grace is bestowed on any, or comparatively, on one and not another, it is all from the Will of God. For herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us first, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins, 1 Joh. 4. 10. Christ himself with all the Grace and Mercy we have by him, is from the free Love and Will of God. So is our Election, Ephes. 1. 4, 5. Our Vocation, 1 Cor. 1. 26, 27. our Regeneration, Joh. 1. 13. Jam. 1. 18. Our recovery from sin, Hos. 14. 4. So is our Peace and all our Consolation, whence he is called the God of all Grace, 1 Pet. 5. 10. and the God of Patience and Consolation, Rom. 15. 5. the Author and Sovereign disposer of them all.