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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
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.
Where there is the least of saving Faith, upon the first Discovery of Christ in the 1Promise, it will stir up the whole Soul to make out towards him, and a Participation of him. As Faith is begotten in the Soul by the Promise, so the first natural genuine Act of it, tends unto a farther Interest in and Participation of that Promise. In going to Christ upon his Call and Invitation, in laying hold upon him in the Promise, consists the Nature, Life, and Being of the Duty, Obedience and Grace of that Faith which is in the Heirs of Promise.
- 1Obser. 4.
It is the Duty and Wisdom of all those unto whom Christ in the Promise is once discovered, by any Gospel-means or Ordinance once set before them, to admit 1of no delay, of a through closing with him. Many things, yea things innumerable will offer themselves with subtlety and violence unto that End; yea all the Crafts and Power of the Gates of Hell will engage to the same purpose; but as Faith being really set on work will prevail against them all, so it is our Duty to avoid them, as those which under specious pretences strike at the Life and Eternal welfare of our Souls.
It is the Duty and Wisdom of all those unto whom Christ in the Promise is once discovered, by any Gospel-means or Ordinance once set before them, to admit 1of no delay, of a through closing with him. Many things, yea things innumerable will offer themselves with subtilty and violence unto that End; yea all the Crafts and Power of the Gates of Hell will engage to the same purpose; but as Faith being really set on work will prevail against them all, so it is our Duty to avoid them, as those which under specious pretences strike at the Life and Eternal welfare of our Souls.