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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.
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2. It is good at all times to fix our Faith on that in God, which is meet to encourage our Obedience and dependence upon him in our present Circumstances. The Believers in those Days did in a very particular manner confess themselves to be Strangers and Pilgrims in the Earth, Heb. 11. 13. The Church was not as yet fixed unto any certain place, and they being Separated from the Apostate World, not mixing with it, nor incorporating in any Society, went up and down from one place to another: In this Condition, having no Inheritance nor abiding place, but exposed unto manifold Dangers, they eyed God in an especial manner as the most High God; as he that was over all, and had the Disposal of all things in his own Sovereign Power. And that variety of Titles which in the Scripture are given unto God, with the Descriptions that are made of him, are all suited unto this end, that in the variety of Occasions and Trials that may befall us in this World, we may still have something peculiarly suited unto the Encouragement of our Faith and dependence on God.
3. In particular it is a matter of inestimable Satisfaction that he whom we Serve is the most High God, the Sovereign Possessor of Heaven and Earth. It is in sense, the same with that Name which God gave himself when he entered into Covenant with Abraham, encouraging thereby unto an adherence to him in Faith and Obedience, Gen. 17. 1. I am God Almighty. And it were easy to Demonstrate what Relief in all Troubles, Dangers, Persecutions, Distresses inward and outward, in Life and Death, we may thence receive. As this Name is Distinctive we may observe, That,
3. In particular it is a matter of inestimable Satisfaction that he whom we Serve is the most High God, the Sovereign Possessor of Heaven and Earth. It is in sence, the same with that Name which God gave himself when he entred into Covenant with Abraham, encouraging thereby unto an adherence to him in Faith and Obedience,