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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.
It falls out indeed sometimes that a Storm at Sea, although it terrify the Passengers, and discompose the Ship, yet accidentally falling in with its course for a season doth speed it in its Voyage. But in their own Nature all Storms tend unto Ruin and Destruction. So likewise do all the ways and means whereby the state of Believers with their Interest in the Promise are assaulted. They all tend unto the Ruin of their Souls. It is true through the holy, wise disposal of all things by the Lord Jesus Christ, they do for the most part issue in the growth of their Faith and furtherance of their Salvation. But this they have not of themselves, their work and tendency is of another Nature. Our Apostle gives us a Description of these Storms, with the use of this Anchor in them, and the success thereof in the safety of the Souls of Believers, Rom. 8. 33, 36, 38, &c. (2) The ordinary occasions of this Life and our Duties towards God and Men therein are like the tradings of Ships in their Harbour. For therein also a good and sure Anchor is necessary for them, the neglect of the use whereof hath proved ruinous to many. And without that which spiritually answers thereunto we shall fluctuate up and down in all that we do, and be in continual hazard of Ruin. In these seasons Hope, as before described, is the Anchor of the Soul; and as that is let down through the Waves and Darkness of the Ocean, by its Cable, until it comes to fix it self in the bottom; so our Hope let out as it were by the sure Word of God, entereth into that wherein it fasteneth it self and fixeth the Soul.
It falls out indeed sometimes that a Storm at Sea, although it terrifie the Passengers, and discompose the Ship, yet accidentally falling in with its course for a season doth speed it in its Voyage. But in their own Nature all Storms tend unto Ruine and Destruction. So likewise do all the ways and means whereby the state of Believers with their Interest in the Promise are assaulted. They all tend unto the Ruine of their Souls. It is true through the holy, wise disposal of all things by the Lord Jesus Christ, they do for the most part issue in the growth of their Faith and furtherance of their Salvation. But this they have not of themselves, their work and tendency is of another Nature. Our Apostle gives us a Description of these Storms, with the use of this Anchor in them, and the success thereof in the safety of the Souls of Believers,