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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 7 › Exegesis of verses 1, 2, 3: Ver. 1, 2, 3.
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.
For whereas they were few in Number, and all the Inhabitants of the Earth being greedily set upon getting Possessions and Inheritances for themselves, they Believed in God as he who was able to Protect them, and provide for them, according unto the Tenor of the Name whereby he afterwards Revealed himself unto Abraham, namely, of Ell Shaddai, or God Almighty. And this also was the principal part of their Profession, that they Served the most High God alone, in opposition unto all the false and Dunghill Deities of the Earth.
For whereas they were few in Number, and all the Inhabitants of the Earth being greedily set upon getting Possessions and Inheritances for themselves, they Believed in God as he who was able to Protect them, and provide for them, according unto the Tenor of the Name whereby he afterwards Revealed himself unto Abraham, namely, of El Shaddai, or God Almighty. And this also was the principal part of their Profession, that they Served the most High God alone, in opposition unto all the false and Dunghill Deities of the Earth.
The Socinians in all their Disputes against the Deity of Christ do always make Use of this Name, and continually repeat it; Christ, they say, is not the most High God; a God they will allow him to be, but not the most High God. But whereas this Name is used in Distinction only from all false gods, if their Christ be a God but not on any Account the most High God, he is a false god, and as such to be rejected. See Jer. 10. 11. And from this Name or Title of God as it is Descriptive of his Majesty and Authority, we may observe,
1. To keep up and preserve a due Reverence of God in our Minds and Words, we should think of, and Use those Holy Titles which are given unto him, and whereby he