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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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A full Conviction of Sin is a great and shaking surprisal unto a guilty Soul. Hence is such an one here tacitly compared unto him who had killed a man 1at unawares. He was just before in a condition of Peace and Safety, fearing no man, but with quietness and assurance attending his own occasions. But having now slain a man at unawares, he finds all things on a sudden changed round about him. Fear within, and danger from without, do beset him on every hand. If he seeth any man, he supposeth him the Avenger of Blood; and if he seeth no man, solitude is dreadful unto him. No otherwise is it with them who are throughly convinced of Sin. They were alive, as the Apostle speaks Rom. 7. and at peace, fearing no more Evil than they felt; perhaps persuading themselves that all things were well between God and their Souls, or not much solicitous whether they were or no. In this state the Commandment comes and discovers their guilt and danger thereon, and unveils the Curse which until now was hidden from them, as the Avenger of Blood ready to execute the Sentence of the Law. This being a thing which they never expected nor feared, fills them with great surprisals. Hence are those cries of such Persons; what shall we do to be saved? that argue a great distress and no small amazement. And those who know nothing of these things are utterly ignorant both of Sin and Grace.
A full Conviction of Sin is a great and shaking surprisal unto a guilty Soul. Hence is such an one here tacitely compared unto him who had killed a man 1at unawares. He was just before in a condition of Peace and Safety, fearing no man, but with quietness and assurance attending his own occasions. But having now slain a man at unawares, he finds all things on a suddain changed round about him. Fear within, and danger from without, do beset him on every hand. If he seeth any man, he supposeth him the Avenger of Blood; and if he seeth no man, solitude is dreadful unto him. No otherwise is it with them who are throughly convinced of Sin. They were alive, as the Apostle speaks Rom. 7. and at peace, fearing no more Evil than they felt; perhaps perswading themselves that all things were well between God and their Souls, or not much solicitous whether they were or no. In this state the Commandment comes and discovers their guilt and danger thereon, and unveils the Curse which until now was hidden from them, as the Avenger of Blood ready to execute the Sentence of the Law. This being a thing which they never expected nor feared, fills them with great surprisals. Hence are those cries of such Persons; what shall we do to be saved? that argue a great distress and no small amazement. And those who know nothing of these things are utterly ignorant both of Sin and Grace.