A53678:1237
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.
4. He hath yet a farther Design, which is not only to prove the Necessity of another Priest and Priesthood, but thereon also a Change and an Abrogation of the whole Law of Worship under the Old Testament. Hence he here introduceth the mention of the Law, as that which was given at the same time with the Priesthood, and had such a Relation thereunto, as that of Necessity it must stand and fall with it. And this may suffice for a view of the Scope of this Verse, and the force of the Argument contained in it. We shall now consider the particulars of it.
1. A Supposition is included that [Greek or Hebrew], which we render Perfection, is the adequate and complete end of the Office of the Priesthood in the Church. This at one time or another, in one Order or another, it must attain, or the whole Office is Useless. And the Apostle denies that this could be obtained by the Levitical Priesthood. And he calls the Priesthood of the Law Levitical, not only because 1Levi was their Progenitor, the Patriarch of their Tribe, from whom they were Genealogized; but also because he would comprise in his Assertion not only the House of Aaron, unto whom the Right and Exercise of the Priesthood was limited and confined, but he would also take into Consideration the whole Levitical Service which was subservient unto the Office of the Priesthood, and without which ⟨p. 156⟩it could not be discharged. Wherefore the Levitical Priesthood is that Priesthood in the Family of Aaron, which was assisted in all their Sacerdotal Actings and Duties by the Levites, who were Consecrated of God unto that End. That [Greek or Hebrew], or Perfection was of this Priesthood, is denied in a restrictive Interrogation. If it had been so, it would have been otherwise with respect unto another Priest, than as it is declared by the Holy Ghost.
1. A Supposition is included that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which we render Perfection, is the adaequate and compleat end of the Office of the Priesthood in the Church. This at one time or another, in one Order or another, it must attain, or the whole Office is Useless. And the Apostle denies that this could be obtained by the Levitical Priesthood. And he calls the Priesthood of the Law Levitical, not only because