A53678:1274
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. From the Dreadful manner of giving the Law. This filled the whole People with Terror and Amazement. Upon the Administration of the Spirit by the Gospel Believers do immediately cry, Abba Father, Rom. 8. 16. Gal 4 6. They have the Liberty and Boldness to draw nigh unto God, and to call him Father. But there was such an Administration of a Spirit of Dread and Terror in the giving of the Law, as that the People were not able to bear the Approaches of God unto them, nor the thought of an Access unto him. And therefore they desired that all things for the future might be Transacted by an Internuncius, one that might go between God and them whilst they kept at their distance, Deut. 5. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. When any first hear the Law, they are afraid of God, and desire nothing more than not to come near him. They would be saved by a distance from him. When any first hear the Gospel, that is, so as to believe it, their Hearts are opened with Love to God, and all their desire is, to be near unto him, to draw nigh unto his Throne. Hence it is called the Joyful sound. Nothing can be more opposite than these two frames. And this Spirit of Fear and Dread thus first given out in the giving of the Law, was communicated unto them in all their Generations, whilst the Levitical Priesthood continued. For as there was nothing to remove it, so it self was one of the Ordinances provided for its continuance. This are we now wholly delivered from. See Chap. 12. 18, 19, 20, 21.
1. From the Dreadful manner of giving the Law. This filled the whole People with Terror and Amazement. Upon the Administration of the Spirit by the Gospel Believers do immediately cry, Abba Father, Rom. 8. 16. Gal 4 6. They have the Liberty and Boldness to draw nigh unto God, and to call him Father. But there was such an Administration of a Spirit of Dread and Terror in the giving of the Law, as that the People were not able to bear the Approaches of God unto them, nor the thought of an Access unto him. And therefore they desired that all things for the future might be Transacted by an Internuncius, one that might go between God and them whilst they kept at their distance, Deut. 5. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27