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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 9, 10: VER. 9, 10.
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 Abraham was now called of God, and separated unto his Service, so as to be the Foundation of a new Church in the World. And there is a Relation unto such an Original Stock in all the Branches, beyond what they have unto any other intermediate Progenitors. Hence all the Idolatrous Nations in the World, constantly made the first Persons from whom they derived their Original, of whose Off-spring they would be •ccounted, their gods whom they Worshipped. These were their Joves indigites, their Home-born Deities, whom they Honoured, and whose Honours they thought descended unto them by Inheritance.
2. He had now received the Promise that God would be a God unto him and his Seed after him; whereby all his Posterity were taken into Covenant with him, and hereon Abraham Covenanted with God in the Name of, and as the great Representative of all his Seed. And such Covenants are the Foundation of all Order and Rule in this World. For after Persons, or a People have Covenanted into such Agreements in Government, and as to the Administration of Common Right among themselves, provided the terms whereon they have agreed be good and suitable unto the light of Nature, their Posterity are not at Liberty to alter and change them at their Pleasure. For whereas they derive all their Right and Inheritances from their Progenitors, they are supposed in them to have consented unto all that was done by them.
3. Hereon what God said and did unto Abraham, he said it and did it unto all his Seed in him. The Promises were theirs, and the Inheritance was theirs; yea, what God is said to give unto Abraham so often, namely, the whole Land of Canaan, was never actually made good unto him in his own Person, no, not a Foots breadth. But he received the Grant of it as a Representative of his Posterity, who 400 Years after had the actual Possession of it.