A53678:841
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
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.
Moreover the Apostle confirmeth this Testimony yet further from the Nature of him by whom it was given. [Greek or Hebrew]; In 1or by which it was impossible that God should lye or deceive. [Greek or Hebrew] is not absolutely to lye, but by any means to deceive him who hath cause to trust what we say or do. The highest Security among men consists in a Promise confirmed with an Oath; and this is, and must be unto them an End of Strife; for higher they cannot go. But yet it is possible there may be a lye and deceit in their Testimony, and he who trusts unto them may be deceived, as it often falls out in the world. For although the things themselves are good, and such as would secure the Interest of Truth only, yet men that use them are changeable, yea liars. But it is God who makes use of them in our Case, and therefore is it Impossible that he should lye. God having made this double engagement of his Truth and Faithfulness, it is utterly impossible that he should deceive any one thereby.
Moreover the Apostle confirmeth this Testimony yet further from the Nature of him by whom it was given. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; In 1or by which it was impossible that God should lye or deceive. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is not absolutely to lye, but by any means to deceive him who hath cause to trust what we say or do. The highest Security among men consists in a Promise confirmed with an Oath; and this is, and must be unto them an End of Strife; for higher they cannot go. But yet it is possible there may be a lye and deceit in their Testimony, and he who trusts unto them may be deceived, as it often falls out in the world. For although the things themselves are good, and such as would secure the Interest of Truth only, yet men that use them are changeable, yea liars. But it is God who makes use of them in our Case, and therefore is it Impossible that he should lye. God having made this double engagement of his Truth and Faithfulness, it is utterly impossible that he should deceive any one thereby.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.