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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.
Let those who stand in need of Grace and Mercy, (as who doth not) expect them wholly from the Sovereign Will and Pleasure of God, who is gracious unto whom he will be gracious, Jam. 1. 5. our own Endeavours are means in this kind for obtaining Grace in the measures and degrees of it; but it is the Will of God alone that is the cause of it all, 2 Tim. 1. 9.
Let those who stand in need of Grace and Mercy, (as who doth not) expect them wholly from the Soveraign Will and Pleasure of God, who is gracious unto whom he will be gracious, Jam. 1. 5. our own Endeavours are means in this kind for obtaining Grace in the measures and degrees of it; but it is the Will of God alone that is the cause of it all, 2 Tim. 1. 9.
2. What God was thus willing unto is expressed, and that was more abundantly to declare the Immutability of his Counsel. And we may enquire concerning it, (1) What is meant by the Counsel of God; (2) How that Counsel of God was, and is Immutable. (3) How it was declared so to be. (4) How it was abundantly so declared.
(1) The Counsel of God is the Eternal purpose of his Will, called his Counsel because of the infinite Wisdom wherewith it is always accompanied. So that 1which is called the good pleasure which he had purposed in himself,