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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
Exegesis of chapter 6 › Exegesis of verses 1, 2: Verse 1, 2.
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These were the works which Converts were taught to abandon, and a Profession of Repentance for them was required of all before their Initiation into Christian Religion, or they were received into the Church. For it was not then as now, that any one might be admitted into the Society of the Faithful, and yet continue to live in open sins unrepented of.
Secondly, That which is required, and which they were taught with respect unto 1these Dead works, is [Greek or Hebrew], Repentance. Repentance from dead works is the first thing required of them who take upon them the Profession of the Gospel, and consequently the first Principle of the Doctrine of Christ as it is here placed by the Apostle. Without this whatever is attempted or attained therein, is only a Dishonour to Christ, and a Disappointment unto men. This is the method of Preaching, confirmed by the Example and Command of Christ himself. Repent and believe the Gospel, Math. 4. 17. Mark 1. 15. And almost all the Sermons that we find, not only of John the Baptist in a way of preparation for the declaration of the Gospel, as Math. 3. 2. but of the Apostles also in pressing the actual Reception of it on the Jews and Gentiles, laid this as their first Principle, namely, the Necessity of Repentance. Acts 2. 38. Chap. 3. 19. Acts 14. 15. Thence in the Preaching of the Gospel it is said, that God Commandeth all men to repent, Acts 17. 30. And when the Gentiles had received the Gospel, the Church at Jerusalem glorified God saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto Life,