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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.
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 1confirmeth any thing by an Oath is fidejussor, one that gives security to Faith. And fidejussor in the Law is Interventor, one who interposeth or cometh between, and engageth himself to give Security. This state of things is therefore here supposed. God had given out that Promise whose Nature we have before declared. Hereon he required the Faith of them unto whom it was given, and that justly. For what could any reasonably require further to give them sufficient ground of assurance? But although all things were clear and satisfactory on the part of God, yet many fears, doubts, and objections would be ready to arise on the part of Believers themselves, as there did in Abraham unto whom the Promise was first made, with respect unto that signal Pledge of its Accomplishment in the birth of Isaac. In this case though God was no way obliged to give them further Caution or Security, yet out of his infinite Love and Condescension, he will give them a higher Pledge and Evidence of his Faithfulness, and interposeth himself by an Oath; he mediated by an Oath, he interposed himself between the Promise and the Faith of Believers, to undertake under that solemnity for the Accomplishment of it. And swearing by himself he takes it on his Life, his Holiness, his Being, his Truth, to make it good. The Truths which from these words thus opened we are instructed in, are these that follow.
4. What God did in this matter for the ends mentioned is summarily expressed, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; he interposed himself by an Oath, fidejussit jurejurando. He that 1confirmeth any thing by an Oath is fidejussor, one that gives security to Faith. And fidejussor in the Law is Interventor, one who interposeth or cometh between, and ingageth himself to give Security. This state of things is therefore here supposed. God had given out that Promise whose Nature we have before declared. Hereon he required the Faith of them unto whom it was given, and that justly. For what could any reasonably require further to give them sufficient ground of assurance? But although all things were clear and satisfactory on the part of God, yet many fears, doubts, and objections would be ready to arise on the part of Believers themselves, as there did in Abraham unto whom the Promise was first made, with respect unto that signal Pledge of its Accomplishment in the birth of Isaac. In this case though God was no way obliged to give them further Caution or Security, yet out of his infinite Love and Condescension, he will give them a higher Pledge and Evidence of his Faithfulness, and interposeth himself by an Oath; he mediated by an Oath, he interposed himself between the Promise and the Faith of Believers, to undertake under that solemnity for the Accomplishment of it. And swearing by himself he takes it on his Life, his Holiness, his Being, his Truth, to make it good. The Truths which from these words thus opened we are instructed in, are these that follow.