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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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And in the Testimonies produced, both the Causes of it, and its general Nature are expressed. For (1) Its supreme original Cause is the good Will, Grace, and Bounty of God. He grants, and gives it to whom he pleaseth of his own good Pleasure. Acts 11. 18. (2) It is immediately collated on the Souls of men by Jesus Christ, as a fruit of his Death, and an effect of that All Power in Heaven and Earth which was bestowed on Him by the Father. He gives Repentance to Israel; Acts 3. 31. The Sovereign disposal of it is from the Will of the Father, and the actual Collation of it, is an Effect of the Grace of the Son. And (3) the Nature of it is expressed in the Conversion of the Gentiles. It is unto Life, Acts 11. 18. The Repentance required of men in the first Preaching of the Gospel, and the Necessity whereof was pressed on them, was unto Life; that is such as had saving Conversion unto God accompanying of it. This kind of Repentance is required unto our Initiation in the Gospel state. Not an empty Profession of any kind of Repentance, but real Conversion unto God, is required of such persons.
And in the Testimonies produced, both the Causes of it, and its general Nature are expressed. For (1) Its supream original Cause is the good Will, Grace, and Bounty of God. He grants, and gives it to whom he pleaseth of his own good Pleasure. Acts 11. 18. (2) It is immediately collated on the Souls of men by Jesus Christ, as a fruit of his Death, and an effect of that All Power in Heaven and Earth which was bestowed on Him by the Father. He gives Repentance to Israel; Acts 3. 31. The Soveraign disposal of it is from the Will of the Father, and the actual Collation of it, is an Effect of the Grace of the Son. And (3) the Nature of it is expressed in the Conversion of the Gentiles. It is unto Life, Acts 11. 18. The Repentance required of men in the first Preaching of the Gospel, and the Necessity whereof was pressed on them, was unto Life; that is such as had saving Conversion unto God accompanying of it. This kind of Repentance is required unto our Initiation in the Gospel state. Not an empty Profession of any kind of Repentance, but real Conversion unto God, is required of such persons.