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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 1, 2: Verse 1, 2.
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.
There are two properties of a Foundation. (1) That it is that which is first laid in every Building. This the natural order of every Building requires. (2) It is that which bears the whole weight of the superstructure; the whole and all the parts of it being laid ⟨p. 9⟩upon it, and firmly united unto it. With respect unto the one or other of these properties, or both, are the Doctrines intended called the Foundation. But in the latter sense they cannot be so. It is Christ himself, and he only, who is so the Foundation as to bear the weight, and to support the whole Building of the Church of God. Isa. 28. 16. Math. 16. 18. 1 Cor. 3. 10, 11. Ephes. 1. 20, 21, 22. 1 Pet. 2. 4, 5. He is so Personally; the Life and Being of the Church consisting in its spiritual Union unto his person; 1 Cor. 12. 12. and Doctrinally, in that all Truth is resolved into what is taught concerning him. 1 Cor. 3. 10, 11, 12, 13. Wherefore it is in allusion unto a Foundation with respect unto its first Property, namely, that it is first laid in the Building, that these Doctrines are called the Foundation. So the Jews term the general principles of their Profession [Greek or Hebrew] the Foundations of the Law; or the principal Doctrines taught therein. The first Doctrines which are necessary to be received and professed at mens first entrance into Christianity. And the Apostle intends the same things by the threefold expression which he maketh use of. (1) [Greek or Hebrew], Chap. 5. 12. The first Principles of the Oracles of God. (2) [Greek or Hebrew], Chap. 6. 1. and (3) [Greek or Hebrew] the Beginning of the Doctrine of Christ, and the Foundation.
There are two properties of a Foundation. (1) That it is that which is first laid in every Building. This the natural order of every Building requires. (2) It is that which bears the whole weight of the superstructure; the whole and all the parts of it being laid