A53678:840
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
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For (2) this makes the Evidence absolute, and uncontrollable, that as they are two things which are produced to make it good, so they are both of them equally Immutable; such as neither in their own Nature, nor in their Execution were any way exposed or liable unto Alteration. For the Promise it self was absolute, and the thing promised depended on no Condition in us, on nothing without God himself. For there was in the Promise it self, all the Springs of all that is good, and of Deliverance from all that is Evil, so that on every side it brings along with it the Condition of its own Accomplishment. But whereas God in the Covenant of Works did give no Promise unto Mankind but what was Conditional, and suspended on such things on our part, as might or might not be, whence it came to pass that we sinned and came ⟨p. 167⟩short of it; God in the giving out of this Promise, which is the foundation of the Covenant of Grace, to assure us that it is utterly of another nature, and such as on no occurrence is liable unto change, confirms it with his Oath.
For (2) this makes the Evidence absolute, and uncontroulable, that as they are two things which are produced to make it good, so they are both of them equally Immutable; such as neither in their own Nature, nor in their Execution were any way exposed or liable unto Alteration. For the Promise it self was absolute, and the thing promised depended on no Condition in us, on nothing without God himself. For there was in the Promise it self, all the Springs of all that is good, and of Deliverance from all that is Evil, so that on every side it brings along with it the Condition of its own Accomplishment. But whereas God in the Covenant of Works did give no Promise unto Mankind but what was Conditional, and suspended on such things on our part, as might or might not be, whence it came to pass that we sinned and came ⟨p. 167⟩short of it; God in the giving out of this Promise, which is the foundation of the Covenant of Grace, to assure us that it is utterly of another nature, and such as on no occurrence is liable unto change, confirms it with his Oath.