A53678:854
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.
5. The especial Design of God in this Dispensation and Condescension, is 1[Greek or Hebrew], &c. That we might have a strong Consolation. Being engaged in the Application of his Instance in the Promise and Faith of God given unto Abraham, the Apostle here plainly dismisseth the consideration of things past under the Old Testament, in those Blessings and temporal things which were Typical of things spiritual; and applies the whole unto present Believers, and therein unto all those of future Ages. That we might have. And herein he builds on this Principle; That whatever God promised, designed, sware unto Abraham, that he did so promise unto all Believers whatever; so that every Promise of the Covenant belongeth equally unto them with him or any other. And two things the Apostle lays down concerning such Believers. (1) What God designs unto them; (2) Such a Description of them as contains the Qualifications necessary unto a Participation of what is so designed.
5. The especial Design of God in this Dispensation and Condescension, is 1〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c. That we might have a strong Consolation. Being engaged in the Application of his Instance in the Promise and Faith of God given unto Abraham, the Apostle here plainly dismisseth the consideration of things past under the Old Testament, in those Blessings and temporal things which were Typical of things spiritual; and applies the whole unto present Believers, and therein unto all those of future Ages. That we might have. And herein he builds on this Principle; That whatever God promised, designed, sware unto Abraham, that he did so promise unto all Believers whatever; so that every Promise of the Covenant belongeth equally unto them with him or any other. And two things the Apostle lays down concerning such Believers. (1) What God designs unto them; (2) Such a Description of them as contains the Qualifications necessary unto a Participation of what is so designed.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.