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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. In the Blessing of Abraham by Melchizedek all Believers are Virtually Blessed by Jesus Christ. Melchizedek was a Type of Christ and represented him in what he ⟨p. 107⟩was and did, as our Apostle declares. And Abraham in all these things bare the Person of, or Represented all his Posterity according to the Faith. Therefore doth our Apostle in the foregoing Chapter Entitle all Believers, unto the Promises made unto him, and the Inheritance of them. There is therefore more than a bare story in this matter. A blessing is in it conveyed unto all Believers in the way of an Ordinance for ever.
2. In the Blessing of Abraham by Melchisedec all Believers are Virtually Blessed by Jesus Christ. Melchisedec was a Type of Christ and represented him in what he ⟨p. 107⟩was and did, as our Apostle declares. And Abraham in all these things bare the Person of, or Represented all his Posterity according to the Faith. Therefore doth our Apostle in the foregoing Chapter Entitle all Believers, unto the Promises made unto him, and the Inheritance of them. There is therefore more than a bare story in this matter. A blessing is in it conveyed unto all Believers in the way of an Ordinance for ever.
3. It is Gods Institution that makes all our Administrations Effectual. So did Sacerdotal Benedictions become Authoritative and Efficacious. Innumerable ways and means of blessing things and persons have been found out in the Papacy. They will bless Bells, Steeples, and Churches, Church-yards, Utensils, Fonts, Candles, Salt; and Children by Confirmation. There is in Truth in them all a want of that wisdom, Gravity and Reverence which ought to accompany Men in all Religious Services; but that which renders them all Useless and casts them out of the Verge of Religion, is that they want a Divine Institution.