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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.
3. The precise Law of Tithing is not confirmed in the Gospel. For that saying of our Saviours approving the Tithing of Mint and Cummin, evidently respects that Legal Institution which was then in force, and could not be violated without sin. And by his Approbation of that Law, and of the Duty in observance of it, he did no more confirm it, or ascribe an Obligatory Power unto it under the Gospel, than he did so unto all other those Ceremonial Institutions which both he himself observed as a Man made under the Law, and enjoined others so to do. They all continued in full force unto the Time of Reformation, which gave them their Bounds and Limits, Heb. 9. 10. and ended with his Resurrection. His other saying, of giving unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and unto God the things that are Gods, respects our whole Moral Obedience unto God, and not this or that particular Institution. The meaning of it is, that we are to pay or perform unto God all whatever he requireth of us in a way of Obedience, but what that is in particular, is not here determined. And other mention of Tithes in the Gospel there is none.
3. The precise Law of Tithing is not confirmed in the Gospel. For that saying of our Saviours approving the Tithing of Mint and Cummin, evidently respects that Legal Institution which was then in force, and could not be violated without sin. And by his Approbation of that Law, and of the Duty in observance of it, he did no more confirm it, or ascribe an Obligatory Power unto it under the Gospel, than he did so unto all other those Ceremonial Institutions which both he himself observed as a Man made under the Law, and enjoyned others so to do. They all continued in full force unto the Time of Reformation, which gave them their Bounds and Limits, Heb. 9. 10. and ended with his Resurrection. His other saying, of giving unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and unto God the things that are Gods, respects our whole Moral Obedience unto God, and not this or that particular Institution. The meaning of it is, that we are to pay or perform unto God all whatever he requireth of us in a way of Obedience, but what that is in particular, is not here determined. And other mention of Tithes in the Gospel there is none.