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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.
1. That the Lord Jesus Christ is the only King of Righteousness and Peace unto the Church. See Isa. 32. 1, 21. Chap. 9. 6. He is not only a Righteous and Peaceable King as were his Types Melchizedek and Solomon, but he is the Author, Cause, Procurer and Dispenser of Righteousness and Peace to the Church. So is it declared, Jer. 23. 5, 6. Behold the Days come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a Righteous Branch, and a King shall Reign and Prosper, and shall Execute Judgment and Justice in the Earth. In his Days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his Name whereby he shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness. He is Righteous and Reigneth Righteously, but this is not all, he is the Lord our Righteousness.
1. That the Lord Jesus Christ is the only King of Righteousness and Peace unto the Church. See Isa. 32. 1, 21. Chap. 9. 6. He is not only a Righteous and Peaceable King as were his Types Melchisedec and Solomon, but he is the Author, Cause, Procurer and Dispenser of Righteousness and Peace to the Church. So is it declared, Jer. 23. 5, 6. Behold the Days come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a Righteous Branch, and a King shall Reign and Prosper, and shall Execute Judgment and Justice in the Earth. In his Days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his Name whereby he shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness. He is Righteous and Reigneth Righteously, but this is not all, he is the Lord our Righteousness.
VII. The Apostle proceeds yet unto other Instances in the Description of Melchizedek wherein he was made like unto the Son of God, ver. 3. Without Father, without Mother, without Descent, having neither beginning of Days nor end of Life. The things here asserted being at the first view strange and uncouth would administer occasion unto large Discourses, and accordingly have been the Subject of many Enquiries and Conjectures. But it is no way unto the Edification of those who are Sober and Godly, to engage into any long Disputes about those things, wherein all Learned sober Expositors are come to an Issue and Agreement, as they are in general in this matter. For it is granted that Melchizedek was a Man, really and truly so, and therefore of Necessity must have all these things; for the Nature of Man after him who was first Created, who yet also had beginning of Life and end of Days, doth not exist without them. Wherefore these things are not denied of him absolutely, but in some sense, and with respect unto some especial end. Now this is with respect unto his Office, therein or as he bare that Office, he was without Father,