On Hebrews
1:8-9 – "The danger that there is unto man unskilled and on exercised in
the word of truth, when, without the advice, assistance, or direction of others
who were able to guide them and instruct their inquiry after the mind of God,
they hastily embrace opinions which may be someone text or other of Scripture
doth seemingly give countenance on to. By this means demand run themselves into
the aforementioned danger every day, especially where any seducing spirit
applies himself under them with swelling words of vanity, boasting of some
misunderstood word or other. Thus we have seen multitudes lead, by some general
expression, in two or three particular places of Scripture, into an opinion
about a general redemption of all mankind and every individual there of; when,
if they had been wise, and able to have searched those other Scriptures in
innumerable setting forth the eternal love of God to his elect, his purpose to
save them by Jesus Christ, the nature in and of his oblation and ransom, and
compared them with others, they would've understood the vanity of their hasty
conceptions” – John Owen, Epistle to the
Hebrews, volume 3, 188-189.
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