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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.
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 ⟨p. 102⟩is described in the Scripture. This was the constant manner of the Holy Men of Old, and which God himself in sundry places directs unto. Thus Abraham immediately makes Use of this Name, Gen. 14. 22. I have lift up my Hand unto Jehovah the most High God, the Possessor of Heaven and Earth. So are we taught to fear that Dreadful and Glorious Name, The Lord thy God, Deut. 28. 58. See Isa. 30. 15. Chap. 57. 15. And there is nothing that Argues a greater contempt of God among Men, than the common slight irreverend mention of his Name, whose highest degree is that horrible Profanation of Swearing and Cursing by it, with wicked and Diabolical Spirits. Let us not therefore think of God, nor mention him, but as the most High and Holy one that Inhabiteth Eternity. Not that on all Occasions of mentioning him we should constantly make Use of these Glorious Titles, the Scripture Warranting us to speak both to him and of him, without their Addition unto his Name; but that we should do so as Occasion doth require, and always Sanctify him in our Hearts and Words, as he unto whom they do belong.