PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Works of John Owen — Volume 20
John Owen · 308,868 words · 307 reading sections
Section 301
_ evermore. This, then, cannot be the sense of the words according to their principles who make use of them for their ends: for they say that men may be the house of Christ although they hold not fast their confidence unto the end; which is directly to contradict the apostle, and to-render his exhortation vain and usel…
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In the last place, the apostle declareth the manner how these things are to be secured: “If we hold fast our confidence firm unto the end.” The duty itself, relating unto the manner of our retain- Katynua vag alti tAridos. 564 AN EXPOSITION OF THE [cHap. II. ing these things, is to “hold them fast;” the state of the…
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566 AN EXPOSITION OF THE [CHAP. III. can take of the wisdom and power that are laid out in this work, and yet I am not more satisfied that there is a God in heaven than I am that he that built this thing is God. And herein also may we see whence it is that this building goes on notwithstanding all the opposition that …
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568 AN EXPOSITION OF THE [CHAP. III. and aim before them? If they have, what can it be-but how they may give up their account with joy?—joy, if not in the safety of all their flocks, through the sinful neglect and miscarriages of any of them, yet in their own faithfulness, and the testimony of their consciences thereu…
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Secondly, It isa special kind of temple; not like that built of old by Solomon, of stones, cedar wood, silver, and gold, but it is a spi- ritual house, 1 Pet. ii. 5, made up of living stones in a strange and wonderful manner,—a temple not subject to decay, but such as grows continually in every stone that is laid in it…
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And in our discharge of this duty is the glory of God greatly con- cerned. The revenue of glory which God hath from any in this world ariseth principally, if not solely, from that profession which they make of the gospel and of their faith in the promises thereof. Hereby do they testify unto his authority, goodness, wi…
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Again; by this means the souls of the saints have a trial and ex- periment of their own grace, of what sort it is; as Abraham had of his own faith and obedience in the great experiment which God gave him of it by his command for the sacrificing of Isaac. Tried 572 AN EXPOSITION OF THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. [CHAP. II…
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