A53678:846
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 (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, Zeph. 1. 12. namely, as he hath either promised or threatened.
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 Ruine 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, Zeph. 1. 12. namely, as he hath either promised or threatened.
(2) Men think that there are still some reserves and latent Conditions in the Promises and Threatenings of God, and that God knows it shall be otherwise, than they seem to pretend. By this Imagination Satan deceived our first Parents as to the Truth of God in his Threatening. He persuaded them that there was a reserve therein, that was directly contrary unto what the ⟨p. 168⟩