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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.
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3. The true Cause of the Omission of all these things, was the same with that of the Institution of his Priesthood, and the Introduction of his Person in the Story. And this was that he might be the more express and signal Representative of the Lord Christ in his Priesthood. For to this End it was not only needful that he should be declared to be a Priest, as the Messiah was to be, but also in that Declaration all those Circumstances were to be observed, wherein the Nature of the Priesthood of Christ might be any way praefigured. After this the Church being reduced into a standing Order for Succession, it was obliged necessarily for many Generations unto a Priesthood which depended solely on their Genealogy and Pedigree both by Father and Mother, Ezra 10. 18, 19. Nehem. 7. 63, 64, 65. Wherefore whereas the Priesthood of our Lord Christ was to depend on no such Descent (for it is evident that our Lord sprang of Judah, whereof Moses spake nothing of the Priesthood) it was necessary that it should be Originally represented, by one who had no Genealogy, seeing that as unto his Office he himself was to have none. And therefore when the Church of Israel was in the highest enjoyment of the Levitical Priesthood, whose Office depended wholly on their Genealogy, yea, so far as on a supposition of a defect or Change thereof, not only the Priesthood it self, but all the Sacred Worship also which it was designed to officiate must utterly cease; yet the Holy Ghost then thought meet to mind them, that a Priest was to come without respect unto any such Descent or Genealogy, in that he was to be after the Order of Melchizedek who had none, Psal. 110. 4. This is the true and only Reason why in the story of Melchizedek as the Priest of the High God, there is no mention made of Father, Mother, Genealogy, Beginning of Life or end of Days.
3. The true Cause of the Omission of all these things, was the same with that of the Institution of his Priesthood, and the Introduction of his Person in the Story. And this was that he might be the more express and signal Representative of the Lord Christ in his Priesthood. For to this End it was not only needful that he should be declared to be a Priest, as the Messiah was to be, but also in that Declaration all those Circumstances were to be observed, wherein the Nature of the Priesthood of Christ might be any way praefigured. After this the Church being reduced into a standing Order for Succession, it was obliged necessarily for many Generations unto a Priesthood which depended solely on their Genealogy and Pedigree both by Father and Mother,