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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.
Believers are called Heirs of the Promise on a double account; (1) With respect unto the Promise it self. (2) With respect unto the matter of the Promise or the thing promised. This distinction is evidently founded on Chap. 11. ver. 13, 17, 39. compared. For look in what sense they are said to be Heirs of the Promise, therein they are not actually possessed of it. For an Heir is only in expectancy of that whereof he is an Heir. Wherefore take the Promise in the first sense formally, and it is the Elect of God as such, who are the Heirs of it. God hath designed them unto an Interest therein, and a Participation thereof; and he confirmed it with his Oath, that they might be induced and encouraged to believe it, to mix it with Faith, and so come to inherit it, or to be made actual partakers of it. To this purpose our Apostle disputeth at large, Rom. 9. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. In the latter sense taking the Promise materially for the thing promised, they are Heirs of it who have an actual Interest in it by Faith; and partaking of the present Grace and Mercy wherewith it is accompanied, as pledges of future Glory, have a Right unto the whole Inheritance. Thus all Believers, and they only, are Heirs of the Promise, Rom. 8. 17. Heirs of God, that is, of the whole Inheritance that he hath provided for his Children. And I take the words in this latter sense; for it is not the first believing of these Heirs of the Promise that they might be justified which is intended; but their establishment in Faith whereby they may be comforted or have strong consolation. But whereas this Declaration of the Immutability of Gods Counsel is made in the Promise of the Gospel which is universal, or at least indefinitely proposed unto all, how it comes here to be cast under this limitation, that it is made to Elect Believers, or the Heirs of Promise only, shall be immediately declared.
4. What God did in this matter for the ends mentioned is summarily expressed, [Greek or Hebrew]; he interposed himself by an Oath, fidejussit jurejurando. He that 1