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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. As for the Name of the place where he Reigned, or Salem, it was also given unto it on the same Ground to be praesignificative of the work that was to be Effected by him, whom he Typed out. Most probably at that time, God first gave that Name unto that place; for that it was not the Salem by Shechem we have before declared. And I am persuaded that God himself by some Providence of his, or other intimation of his mind, gave that Name of Peace first unto that City, because there he designed not only to Rest in his Typical Worship for a season, but also in the fullness of Time there to accomplish the great work of Peace-making ⟨p. 113⟩between himself and Mankind. Hence it was afterwards by the same Guidance called Jerusalem or a Vision of Peace, because of the many Visions and Prophecies concerning the Spiritual and Eternal Peace which was to be wrought and Published in that place; as also from all those Holy Institutions of his Worship which there represented the means whereby that Peace was to be wrought, namely, the Sacrifice of Christ himself, the only real and proper Priest of the Church. Wherefore our Apostle doth justly Argue from the signification of those Names which were given both to the Person and place by Divine Authority and Guidance, that they might teach and fore-signify the things whereunto by him they are applied.
3. As for the Name of the place where he Reigned, or Salem, it was also given unto it on the same Ground to be praesignificative of the work that was to be Effected by him, whom he Typed out. Most probably at that time, God first gave that Name unto that place; for that it was not the Salem by Sychem we have before declared. And I am perswaded that God himself by some Providence of his, or other intimation of his mind, gave that Name of Peace first unto that City, because there he designed not only to Rest in his Typical Worship for a season, but also in the fulness of Time there to accomplish the great work of Peace-making ⟨p. 113⟩between himself and Mankind. Hence it was afterwards by the same Guidance called Jerusalem or a Vision of Peace, because of the many Visions and Prophecies concerning the Spiritual and Eternal Peace which was to be wrought and Published in that place; as also from all those Holy Institutions of his Worship which there represented the means whereby that Peace was to be wrought, namely, the Sacrifice of Christ himself, the only real and proper Priest of the Church. Wherefore our Apostle doth justly Argue from the signification of those Names which were given both to the Person and place by Divine Authority and Guidance, that they might teach and fore-signifie the things whereunto by him they are applyed.