A53678:1094
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 Qualification of his Person, and his Title thereon is added in like manner: 1He was [Greek or Hebrew]. A Patriarch is a Father, that is, a Prince or Ruler of a Family. A Ruling Father; and these Patriarchs were of three sorts among the Jews. Of the first sort was he alone who was the first separated Progenitor of the whole Nation. He was their [Greek or Hebrew]—the first Father of all that great Family. Secondly, there were such as Succeeded him, from whom the whole Nation in like manner Descended, as Isaac and Jacob, who were Heirs with him of the same Promise, Heb. 11. 4. Thirdly, Such as were the first Heads of their Twelve Tribes into which the Nation was divided, that is, the Twelve Sons of Jacob, are called Patriarchs, Acts 7. 8, 9. Others that followed them, as David, who is also called a Patriarch, Acts 2. 29. were termed so, in allusion unto them, and being signally the Progenitors of a most Eminent Family among them. Now it is evident that the first of these on all accounts is the Principal, and hath the Preeminence over all the rest. And this was Abraham alone. Wherefore if any one were greater than Abraham, and that in his own time, it must be acknowledged it was upon the account of some Privilege that was above all that ever that whole Nation as Descendants from Abraham were made partakers of. But that this was so the Apostle proves by the Instance ensuing, namely, that he gave to Melchizedek, &c.
The Qualification of his Person, and his Title thereon is added in like manner: 1He was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. A Patriarch is a Father, that is, a Prince or Ruler of a Family. A Ruling Father; and these Patriarchs were of three sorts among the Jews. Of the first sort was he alone who was the first separated Progenitor of the whole Nation. He was their 〈non-Latin alphabet〉—the first Father of all that great Family. Secondly, there were such as Succeeded him, from whom the whole Nation in like manner Descended, as Isaac and Jacob, who were Heirs with him of the same Promise,