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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
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3. The third thing wherein this [Greek or Hebrew] or Perfection doth consist, is Spiritual Light and Knowledge, with respect unto the Mysteries of the Wisdom and Grace of God. God had designed for the Church a Measure of Spiritual light and knowledge which was not attainable under the Law, which is the Subject of that great Promise, Jer. 31. 34. whose Accomplishment is declared, 1 John 2. 27. And there are three things which concur unto the Constitution of this Privilege.
3. The third thing wherein this 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or Perfection doth consist, is Spiritual Light and Knowledge, with respect unto the Mysteries of the Wisdome and Grace of God. God had designed for the Church a Measure of Spiritual light and knowledge which was not attainable under the Law, which is the Subject of that great Promise, Jer. 31. 34. whose Accomplishment is declared, 1 John 2. 27. And there are three things which concur unto the Constitution of this Priviledge.
1. The Principal Revealer of the mind and will of God. Under the Law God made use of the Ministry of Men unto this purpose, as of Moses, and the Prophets. And he employed also, both in the Erection of the Church-state, and in sundry particulars afterwards the Ministry of Angels, as our Apostle declares, Chap. 2. 2. And in some sense that state was thereby put in Subjection unto Angels, ver. 5. But this Ministry, the Dispensation of light and knowledge thereby, could not render it complete; yea, it was an Argument of the Darkness and Bondage under which it was. For there was yet one greater than they all, and above them all, one more intimately acquainted with God and all the Counsels of his will, by whom he would speak forth his mind,