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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.
3. This Immutability, God was willing [Greek or Hebrew], to show, manifest, declare, 1make known; It is not his Counsel absolutely, but the Immutability of his Counsel, that God designed to evidence. His Counsel he made known in his Promise. All the gracious actings of God towards us, are the executing of his holy Immutable Purposes, Ephes. 1. 11. And all the Promises of God are the Declarations of those Purposes. And they also in themselves are Immutable, for they depend on the Essential Truth of God, Tit. 1. 2. In hope of Eternal Life which God that cannot lye promised before the world began. Gods Essential Veracity is engaged in his Promises. And they are so expressly the Declaration of his Purposes, that when God had only purposed to give us Eternal Life in Christ, he is said to have promised it; namely, before the world began. And this declareth the Nature of Unbelief, He that believeth not God, hath made him a Liar, 1 Jo. 5. 10. because his Essential Truth is engaged in his Promise. And to make God a Liar is to deny his Being, which every Unbeliever doth as he is able. But whereas God intended not only the confirmation of the Faith of the Heirs of Promise, but also their Consolation under all their Difficulties and Temptations, he would give a peculiar evidence of the Immutability of that Counsel which they embraced by Faith as tendered in the Promise. For what was done did not satisfy the fullness of Grace and Love which he would declare in this matter, no though it were done so abundantly; But,
3. This Immutability, God was willing 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to shew, manifest, declare, 1make known; It is not his Counsel absolutely, but the Immutability of his Counsel, that God designed to evidence. His Counsel he made known in his Promise. All the gracious actings of God towards us, are the executing of his holy Immutable Purposes, Ephes. 1. 11. And all the Promises of God are the Declarations of those Purposes. And they also in themselves are Immutable, for they depend on the Essential Truth of God,