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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
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.
The Proof of the Greatness of Melchizedek from hence consists in three things. (1.) In the Nomination of the Person that was Subject unto him, or Abraham. (2.) In the Qualification of his Person, He was the Patriarch. (3.) In what he did, He gave him the Tenth part of the Spoils.
The Proof of the Greatness of Melchisedec from hence consists in three things. (1.) In the Nomination of the Person that was Subject unto him, or Abraham. (2.) In the Qualification of his Person, He was the Patriarch. (3.) In what he did, He gave him the Tenth part of the Spoils.
As to the Person himself he was the Stock and Root of the whole People, their 1Common Father in whom they were first separated from other Nations to be a People of themselves. And herein they had a singular Reverence for him, as generally all Nations have for the first Founders of their Political State, who among the Idolatrous Heathens were commonly Deified, and made the Objects of their Religious Adoration. But moreover it was he who first received the Promise and the Covenant with the Token of it, and by whom alone they put in their Claim unto all the Privileges and Advantages which they Gloried in above all Nations in the World. This Abraham therefore they esteemed next unto God himself. And their Fosterity do now place him in Heaven above the Angels, hardly allowing that the Messiah himself should be exalted above him, and tell a Foolish story how he took it ill, that the Messiah should be on the Right Hand, and he on the Left Hand of God. But it is sufficiently evident from the Gospel, how much in those days they boasted of him, and trusted in him. Hence it is that our Apostle expresseth it so emphatically, even Abraham.
As to the Person himself he was the Stock and Root of the whole People, their 1Common Father in whom they were first separated from other Nations to be a People of themselves. And herein they had a singular Reverence for him, as generally all Nations have for the first Founders of their Political State, who among the Idolatrous Heathens were commonly Deified, and made the Objects of their Religious Adoration. But moreover it was he who first received the Promise and the Covenant with the Token of it, and by whom alone they put in their Claim unto all the Priviledges and Advantages which they Gloried in above all Nations in the VVorld. This Abraham therefore they esteemed next unto God himself. And their Fosterity do now place him in Heaven above the Angels, hardly allowing that the Messiah himself should be exalted above him, and tell a Foolish story how he took it ill, that the Messiah should be on the Right Hand, and he on the Left Hand of God. But it is sufficiently evident from the Gospel, how much in those days they boasted of him, and trusted in him. Hence it is that our Apostle expresseth it so emphatically, even Abraham.