“They ought carefully to consider the temptations which are prevalent, and which unavoidably we are exposed to. Every age and time has its especial temptations; and it is the will of God that the church should be exercised with them and by them. And it would be easy to manifest, that the darkness and ignorance of men, in not discerning the especial temptations of the age in which they have lived, or neglecting of them, have been always the great causes and means of the apostasy of the church. By this means has superstition prevailed in one age, and profaneness in another; as false and noxious opinions in a third. Now, there is nothing that God requires more strictly of us, than that we should be watchful against present prevalent temptations; and he charges us with guilt where we are not so. And those which are not awake with respect to those temptations which are at this day prevalent in the world are far enough from walking well-pleasing before God.”
Owen, John. An Exposition of Hebrews 8:6-13. Wherein, the
nature and differences between the Old and New Covenants is discovered.
Palmdale, CA: Reformed Baptist Academic Press, 2005. 225. Print.
