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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 Scripture is so absolutely the Rule, Measure, and Boundary of our Faith and Knowledge in Spiritual things, as that what it conceals is Instructive, as well as what it expresseth. This the Apostle Manifests in many of his Observations concerning Melchizedek, and his Inferences from thence. But I have (as I remember) Discoursed somewhat hereof before.
3. The Scripture is so absolutely the Rule, Measure, and Boundary of our Faith and Knowledge in Spiritual things, as that what it conceals is Instructive, as well as what it expresseth. This the Apostle Manifests in many of his Observations concerning Melchisedec, and his Inferences from thence. But I have (as I remember) Discoursed somewhat hereof before.
Secondly, Our next Enquiry is, Wherein Melchizedek was Typical of Christ, or what of all this belongeth unto the following Assertion that he was made like unto the Son of God; that is, so described as that he might have a great Resemblance of him.
Secondly, Our next Enquiry is, Wherein Melchisedec was Typical of Christ, or what of all this belongeth unto the following Assertion that he was made like unto the Son of God; that is, so described as that he might have a great Resemblance of him.
Answ. It is generally thought that he was so in the whole, and in every particular mentioned distinctly. Thus he is said to be without Father, and without Mother, (no mention is made of them) because the Lord Christ was in some sense so also. He was without Father on Earth as to his Humane Nature, with respect whereunto God says that he will create a New thing in the Earth, That a Woman should compass a Man,