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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.
Infinite Goodness, as acting it self in Christ, was not satisfied in providing and preparing good things for Believers, but it would also show and declare it unto them for their present 1Consolation. God was willing to show to the Heirs of Promise; and the end was that they might have strong Consolation. As it is with a good wise Father and an Obedient Son. The Father is possessed of a large and profitable Estate. And as the son hath a present allowance suitable to his Condition, so being Obedient he hath a just expectation, that in due time he shall enjoy the whole Inheritance; this being usual amongst men, and that which the Law of Nature directs unto; For Parents are to lay up for their Children, and not Children for their Parents. But the whole being yet absolutely in the Fathers power, it is possible he may otherwise dispose of it, and it may not come to the right Heir. But now if his Father ⟨p. 163⟩seeth his Son on some occasion to want Encouragement, or he be to put him on any difficult Service where he may meet with Storms and Dangers, he will show unto him his Deeds of Settlement, wherein he had irrevocably confirmed unto him the whole Inheritance. So God deals with Believers, with his Children in this case. He is Rich in Grace, Mercy and Glory, and all his Children are Heirs of it, Coheirs with Christ and Heirs of God, Rom. 8. 17. that is, of the whole Inheritance that God hath provided for his Children; This they have an expectation of by the Promise according to the Law of the New Covenant. But although their state be thus secured by their being Heirs of the Promise, yet God knowing that they have a difficult work and warfare to go through withal, and what it is to serve him in Temptations, for their Encouragement and Consolation, he produceth and showeth them his irrevocable Deed of Settlement, namely, his Promise confirmed by his Oath, whereby the whole Inheritance is infallibly secured unto them, He was free and willing to show it unto the Heirs of Promise. At first God gave out a mere Precept as the Declaration of his Will, and a Promise couched in a Threatening. This was that which Divine Goodness acting in a way of Nature did require, and whereof man had no cause to complain. For as the mind of God was sufficiently declared therein, so man in himself had no grounds of discouragements from a compliance therewith.