A53678:1252
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.
1. The first thing constituting this Gospel-state of Perfection, is Righteousness. The Introduction of all Imperfection and weakness in the Church was by sin. This made the Law weak, Rom. 8. 3. and Sinners to be without strength, Rom. 5. 7. Wherefore the Reduction of Perfection must in the first place be by Righteousness. This was the great Fundamental Promise of the times of the New Testament, Isa. 60. 21. Psal. 72. 7. Psal. 85. 10, 11. And this was to be brought in by Christ alone. Wherefore one Name whereby he was Promised unto the Church, was, The Lord our Righteousness, Jer. 23 6. Righteousness of our own we had none, nor could any thing in the whole Creation supply us with the least of its Concerns, with any thing that belongs thereunto: Yet without it must we perish for ever. Wherefore Jehovah himself becomes our Righteousness, that we might say, In Jehovah have we Righteousness and Strength, and that in him all the Seed of Israel might be Justified and Glory, Isa. 45. 25. For by him are all that Believe Justified from all things, from which they could not be Justified by the Law of Moses, Acts 13 39. To this end he brought in Everlasting Righteousness, Dan. 9. 24. [Greek or Hebrew] Not a Temporary Righteousness suited unto the [Greek or Hebrew] the Age of the Church under the Old Covenant, which is often said to be Everlasting in a limited sense; but that which was for all Ages to make the Church Blessed unto Eternity. So is he made unto us of God Righteousness, 1 Cor. 1. 30.
1. The first thing constituting this Gospel-state of Perfection, is Righteousness. The Introduction of all Imperfection and weakness in the Church was by sin. This made the Law weak,