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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
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There is nothing that we are so prone unto, as to distrust the Promises of God. Nothing that we are with more difficulty won over unto, than to mix them with Faith. To evidence this we may consider,
1. That the first entrance of Sin into the world, was by a disbelief of the Truth of God; yea that very sin formally consisted in an Apprehension, that God in his Promises and Threatenings had a mind to deceive us, Gen. 3. 4, 5, 6. And as sin thus laid its foundation by the Craft of Satan, so it endeavours to carry on its building. It continually suggests to the Hearts and Minds of men, that they shall certainly be deceived in trusting to Gods Promises.
1. That the first entrance of Sin into the world, was by a disbelief of the Truth of God; yea that very sin formally consisted in an Apprehension, that God in his Promises and Threatenings had a mind to deceive us, Gen. 3. 4, 5, 6. And as sin thus laid its foundation by the Craft of Sathan, so it endeavours to carry on its building. It continually suggests to the Hearts and Minds of men, that they shall certainly be deceived in trusting to Gods Promises.
For (1) Secret thoughts there are in the Hearts of men (which are deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked) that neither the Promises nor Threatenings of God are true, in the terms and sense wherein they are proposed unto them. They neither think that it shall be so bad with any as he threateneth, nor so well as he promiseth. Did men believe the Threatenings of God as to the fearful and Eternal Ruin of Sinners, it were not possible they should live in Sin as they do without any Endeavour of Amendments, so to fly from the Wrath to come. Nor do they think in their Hearts that it shall be with them that believe according as God hath promised. They say in their Hearts, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil,