“The danger
that there is unto men unskilled and unexercised in the word of truth, when,
without advice, assistance, or direction of others who are able to guide them
and instruct their inquiry after the mind of God, they hastily embrace opinions
which it may be some one text or other doth seemingly give countenance
unto. By this means do men run
themselves into the forementioned danger every day, especially where any
seducing spirit applies himself unto them with swelling words of vanity, boasting
of some misunderstood word or other.
Thus have we seen multitudes led, by some general expression, in two or
three particular places in Scripture, into an opinion about a general
redemption of all mankind and every individual thereof; when, if they had been
wise, and able to have searched those other scriptures innumerable setting
forth the eternal love of God to his elect his purpose to save them by Jesus
Christ, the natural and end of his oblation and ransom, and compared them with
others, they would have understood the vanity of their hasty conceptions” – John
Owen, Epistle to the Hebrews, volume
3, 188-189.
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