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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.
(1) Such as by whom the Gospel is absolutely rejected as a foolish thing unbecoming the Wisdom of God to propose, and their own Wisdom to receive. As this was the state of the Jews and Pagan world of old, and as it is the condition of the Mahometans and Relics of the Heathens at this day; so I wish that the Poison and Contagion of this wickedness were not further diffused. But alas we see many every day who on the account of their outward Circumstances live in some kind of compliance with the Name and Profession of the Gospel, who yet discover themselves sufficiently to hate, despise and contemn the Mystery of it, and the Wisdom of God therein.
(1) Such as by whom the Gospel is absolutely rejected as a foolish thing unbecoming the Wisdom of God to propose, and their own Wisdom to receive. As this was the state of the Jews and Pagan world of old, and as it is the condition of the Mahumetans and Reliques of the Heathens at this day; so I wish that the Poison and Contagion of this wickedness were not further diffused. But alas we see many every day who on the account of their outward Circumstances live in some kind of compliance with the Name and Profession of the Gospel, who yet discover themselves sufficiently to hate, despise and contemn the Mystery of it, and the Wisdom of God therein.
(2) Such as own the Gospel in the Letter of it, but look on the Mystery of it, or the Counsel of God therein as foolishness. Hence all the principal parts of it, as the Incarnation of Christ, the Hypostatical Union of his Person, his Sacrifice and Oblation, the Atonement and Satisfaction made by his Death, the Imputation of his Righteousness, the Election of Grace, with the Power and Efficacy of it in our Conversion, are all of them either directly exploded as foolish, or wrested unto senses suited unto their own low and carnal Apprehensions. And this sort of men do swarm amongst us at this day like to Locusts when a North-East-Wind hath filled every place with them.
(2) Such as own the Gospel in the Letter of it, but look on the Mystery of it, or the Counsel of God therein as foolishness. Hence all the principal parts of it, as the Incarnation of Christ, the Hypostatical Union of his Person, his Sacrifice and Oblation, the Attonement and Satisfaction made by his Death, the Imputation of his Righteousness, the Election of Grace, with the Power and Efficacy of it in our Conversion, are all of them either directly exploded as foolish, or wrested unto senses suited unto their own low and carnal Apprehensions. And this sort of men do swarm amongst us at this day like to Locusts when a North-East-Wind hath filled every place with them.