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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.
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5. Abraham in this Solemn Address unto God by Melchizedek the Type of Christ, wherein he expressed his Covenant-Obedience unto him, was the Representative of all his Posterity, and in particular of Levi and all the Priests that Descended from him. And having now received the whole Land by virtue of a Covenant in the behalf of his Posterity, that it should be theirs, though he himself had never Possession of it, nor in it, he doth in the Name of his Posterity, and as their Representative, give the Tenths unto God by Melchizedek, as that Chief Rent which God for ever reserved unto himself, upon his Grant. When the People came actually to Possess the Land, they held it always on this Condition, That the Tenths of all should be given unto God. And this Abraham in his taking seisin of it for them paid in their Name: So truly and virtually was Levi himself Tithed in the Loins of Abraham when Melchizedek met him. Wherefore it was not merely Levi being in the Loins of Abraham with respect unto Natural Generation, whence he is said to be Tithed in him, but his being in him with Respect unto the Covenant which Abraham entered into with God in the Name of his whole Posterity.
5. Abraham in this Solemn Address unto God by Melchisedec the Type of Christ, wherein he expressed his Covenant-Obedience unto him, was the Representative of all his Posterity, and in particular of Levi and all the Priests that Descended from him. And having now received the whole Land by virtue of a Covenant in the behalf of his Posterity, that it should be theirs, though he himself had never Possession of it, nor in it, he doth in the Name of his Posterity, and as their Representative, give the Tenths unto God by Melchisedec, as that Chief Rent which God for ever reserved unto himself, upon his Grant. When the People came actually to Possess the Land, they held it always on this Condition, That the Tenths of all should be given unto God. And this Abraham in his taking seisin of it for them paid in their Name: So truly and virtually was Levi himself Tithed in the Loyns of Abraham when Melchisedec met him. Wherefore it was not meerly Levi being in the Loyns of Abraham with respect unto Natural Generation, whence he is said to be Tithed in him, but his being in him with Respect unto the Covenant which Abraham entred into with God in the Name of his whole Posterity.