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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.
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(1) Hence see the horrible depravation of Nature which by sin is befallen the minds, reasons, and understandings of men. For from hence alone it is that this Purpose of God which was an Act of Infinite Wisdom, that the work which he hath wrought pursuant thereof, whereon are impressed the Characters of his manifold Wisdom, are esteemed folly, or foolish things unto them. So far are men by Nature from seeing an excellency of Divine Wisdom in them, that they cannot suffer them to pass as things tolerably rational, but brand them as foolish, or folly ⟨p. 161⟩it self. This our Apostle declares and at large insisteth on, 1 Cor. 1. Had the mind of man fixed on any other Reason for the rejection of this Counsel of God, some excuse might be pretended for it, but to reject that as folly which God sets forth and declares as the principal Instance of his Infinite Wisdom, this discovereth the horror of its depravation. And those in whom this blindness is prevalent may be referred unto three sorts.
(1) Hence see the horrible depravation of Nature which by sin is befallen the minds, reasons, and understandings of men. For from hence alone it is that this Purpose of God which was an Act of Infinite Wisdom, that the work which he hath wrought pursuant thereof, whereon are impressed the Characters of his manifold Wisdom, are esteemed folly, or foolish things unto them. So far are men by Nature from seeing an excellency of Divine Wisdom in them, that they cannot suffer them to pass as things tolerably rational, but brand them as foolish, or folly ⟨p. 161⟩it self. This our Apostle declares and at large insisteth on, 1 Cor. 1. Had the mind of man fixed on any other Reason for the rejection of this Counsel of God, some excuse might be pretended for it, but to reject that as folly which God sets forth and declares as the principal Instance of his Infinite Wisdom, this discovereth the horrour of its depravation. And those in whom this blindness is prevalent may be referred unto three sorts.