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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.
It is agreed by all, that those expressions of repenting, grieving, and the like, are figurative, wherein no such Affections are intended as those words signify in created Natures, but only an event of things like that, which proceedeth from such Affections.
It is agreed by all, that those expressions of repenting, grieving, and the like, are figurative, wherein no such Affections are intended as those words signifie in created Natures, but only an event of things like that, which proceedeth from such Affections.
And as to the changes themselves expressed, the School-men say not amiss, Vult Deus mutationem, non mutat voluntatem, He willeth a change, he changeth not his Will.
But fully to remove these Difficulties; the Purpose of God and the Counsels of his Will, may be considered either in themselves, or in the Declaration that is made concerning their Execution. In themselves they are absolutely immutable, no more subject unto change than is the Divine Nature it self. The Declarations which God makes concerning their Execution or Accomplishments are of two sorts.