A53678:861
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.
Sense of Danger and Ruin from sin, is the first thing which occasions a Soul to look 1out after Christ in the Promise. It is implied in the word [Greek or Hebrew], which includes a respect unto Danger to be avoided, whence we render it, fly for Refuge. As the Lord Christ came to seek and save that which was lost, to call not the Righteous but sinners to Repentance, to be a Physician to the sick and not to the whole; so if men are not sensible of their lost condition, of the sin and sickness of their Souls, they will never in good earnest look out after him. And therefore as those by whom Conviction of Sin, and Humiliation for it are despised, as they are by many, Christ himself also, who is the End of the Law and all its Convictions for Righteousness, is despised; so the Profession of Christ and hopes of Salvation by him is in vain in all those who were never truly made sensible of Sin and the danger of Eternal Ruin thereby.
Sense of Danger and Ruine from sin, is the first thing which occasions a Soul to look 1out after Christ in the Promise. It is implied in the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which includes a respect unto Danger to be avoided, whence we render it, fly for Refuge. As the Lord Christ came to seek and save that which was lost, to call not the Righteous but sinners to Repentance, to be a Physician to the sick and not to the whole; so if men are not sensible of their lost condition, of the sin and sickness of their Souls, they will never in good earnest look out after him. And therefore as those by whom Conviction of Sin, and Humiliation for it are despised, as they are by many, Christ himself also, who is the End of the Law and all its Convictions for Righteousness, is despised; so the Profession of Christ and hopes of Salvation by him is in vain in all those who were never truly made sensible of Sin and the danger of Eternal Ruine thereby.
- 1Obser. 1.