A53678:849
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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On these and the like grounds, the great contest in the world between God and Man, is whether God be True or a Liar in his Promise. It is not thus directly stated in the minds of Men; for they have many other pretences why they do not believe; but this is that which it is resolved into. For he that receives not the Testimony of God, maketh him a Liar. So was it with the People in the Wilderness, whose Carcasses fell therein because of their Unbelief. The Reasons they pretended and pleaded why they would not attempt to enter the Land of Canaan, were that the People were strong, and the Cities walled, and Giants among them, Numb. 13. 28, 32, 33. But the true reason was their Unbelief of Gods Promise; wherefore God expresseth the sense of his Indignation against them, with that Scheme of Reproach; Ye shall bear your Iniquities, and you shall know my breach of Promise, chap. 14. 34. or see what your Unbelief hath brought you unto. And no otherwise is it with all Unbelievers at present, as our Apostle at large declares chap. 3. of this Epistle. Other things are pretended as the causes of their Unbelief, but it is their dissatisfaction in the Truth of God that is the true and only cause of it. And as this sufficiently manifests the heinousness of Unbelief, so it Glorifies the Righteousness of God in the Condemnation of Unbelievers.
On these and the like grounds, the great contest in the world between God and Man, is whether God be True or a Liar in his Promise. It is not thus directly stated in the minds of Men; for they have many other pretences why they do not believe; but this is that which it is resolved into. For he that receives not the Testimony of God, maketh him a Liar. So was it with the People in the Wilderness, whose Carkasses fell therein because of their Unbelief. The Reasons they pretended and pleaded why they would not attempt to enter the Land of Canaan, were that the People were strong, and the Cities walled, and Giants among them, Numb. 13. 28, 32, 33. But the true reason was their Unbelief of Gods Promise; wherefore God expresseth the sense of his Indignation against them, with that Scheme of Reproach; Ye shall bear your Iniquities, and you shall know my breach of Promise, chap. 14. 34. or see what your Unbelief hath brought you unto. And no otherwise is it with all Unbelievers at present, as our Apostle at large declares chap. 3. of this Epistle. Other things are pretended as the causes of their Unbelief, but it is their dissatisfaction in the Truth of God that is the true and only cause of it. And as this sufficiently manifests the hainousness of Unbelief, so it Glorifies the Righteousness of God in the Condemnation of Unbelievers.