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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.
In particular the Counsel of God in this place, is the holy, wise Purpose of his Will, to give his Son Jesus Christ to be of the Seed of Abraham, for the Salvation of all the Elect, or Heirs of Promise; And that in such a way, and accompanied with all such good things, as might secure their Faith and Consolation. This is the Counsel of God, which contained all the Grace and Mercy of the Promise, with the securing them unto Believers.
(2) Of this Counsel, it is affirmed that it was immutable, not subject unto change. [Greek or Hebrew], is quod [Greek or Hebrew] nequit, that cannot be altered. But the design of God here was not to make his Counsel unchangeable, but to declare it so to be. For all the Purposes of God, all the Eternal Acts of his Will considered in themselves are Immutable. See Isa. 46. 10. Psal. 33. 11. Prov. 19. 21. chap. 21. 30. and their Immutability is a necessary consequent of the Immutability of the Nature of God, with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning, Jam. 1. 17. The strength of Israel is not a man that he should repent, 1 Sam. 15. 29. And in opposition unto all change or mutability it is said of God [Greek or Hebrew], Psal. 102. 27. which the Apostle renders by [Greek or Hebrew], thou art He always, in all respect one and the same. Hence among the Jews [Greek or Hebrew] He is a Name of God, expressing his immutable self-subsistence. But it will be said that there are in the Scriptures many Declarations of Gods altering his Purpose and Counsels, and repenting him of what he had before determined, being grieved at what he had done,