A53678:1276
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.
3. Under the Levitical Priesthood, even their Holy Worship was so appointed and Ordered, as to keep them partly in Fear, and partly at a Distance from the Presence of God. The continual Multiplication of their Sacrifices, one day after another, one week after another, one month after another, one year after another, taught them, that by them all there was not an end made of sin, nor Everlasting Righteousness brought in by any of them. This Argument our Apostle makes use of to this purpose, Chap. 10. 1. The Law, saith he, could never by those Sacrifices which they Offered, Year by Year continually, [Greek or Hebrew], bring the Worshippers unto this Perfection. And he gives this Reason for it, namely, because they had still a Conscience of Sin, that is, a Conscience condemning them for sin, and therefore there was a Remembrance made of sin again every Year, ver. 2, 3. Hereby they were kept in Dread and Fear. And in their Worship they were minded of nothing so much as their Distance from God, and that they had not as yet a Right to an immediate Access unto him. For they were not so much as once to come into the Holyest, where were the Pledges and Tokens of Gods Presence. And the Prohibitions of their Approaches unto God were attended with such severe Penalties, that the People cried out they were not able to bear them, Numb. 17. 12, 13. which Peter reflects upon, Acts 15. 10. The Holy Ghost thereby signifying that the way into the Holyest of all was not made manifest whilst the first Tabernacle was standing, Chap 9. 8. No Man had yet Right to enter into it with boldness, which Believers now have, Chap. 10. 19, 20.
3. Under the Levitical Priesthood, even their Holy Worship was so appointed and Ordered, as to keep them partly in Fear, and partly at a Distance from the Presence of God. The continual Multiplication of their Sacrifices, one day after another, one week after another, one moneth after another, one year after another, taught them, that by them all there was not an end made of sin, nor Everlasting Righteousness brought in by any of them. This Argument our Apostle makes use of to this purpose, Chap. 10. 1. The Law, saith he, could never by those Sacrifices which they Offered, Year by Year continually, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, bring the Worshippers unto this Perfection. And he gives this Reason for it, namely, because they had still a Conscience of Sin, that is, a Conscience condemning them for sin, and therefore there was a Remembrance made of sin again every Year, ver. 2, 3. Hereby they were kept in Dread and Fear. And in their Worship they were minded of nothing so much as their Distance from God, and that they had not as yet a Right to an immediate Access unto him. For they were not so much as once to come into the Holyest, where were the Pledges and Tokens of Gods Presence. And the Prohibitions of their Approaches unto God were attended with such severe Penalties, that the People cryed out they were not able to bear them,