A53678:1279
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. He himself died as our High Priest. He entered into the devouring Jaws of Death, and that as it was threatened in the Curse. And now is the Trial to be made. If he who thus ventured on Death as threatened in the Curse, and that for us, be swallowed up by it, or detained by its Power and Pains, there is a certain end of all our Hopes. Whatever we may arrive unto in this World, Death will convey us over into eternal Ruin. But if he brake through its Power, have the pains of it removed from him, do swallow it up into Victory, and rise Triumphantly into Immortality and Glory, then is our entrance into them also even by and after Death secured. And in the Resurrection of Christ the Church had the first unquestionable Evidence that Death might be Conquered, that it and the Curse might be separated, that there might be a free passage through it into Life and Immortality. These things Originally and in the first Covenant were inconsistent, nor was the Reconciliation of them evident under the Levitical Priesthood. But hereby was the Veil rent from top to bottom, and the most Holy place not made with hands laid open unto Believers. See Isa. 25. 7, 8.
1. He himself died as our High Priest. He entred into the devouring Jaws of Death, and that as it was threatned in the Curse. And now is the Trial to be made. If he who thus ventured on Death as threatned in the Curse, and that for us, be swallowed up by it, or detained by its Power and Pains, there is a certain end of all our Hopes. Whatever we may arrive unto in this World, Death will convey us over into eternal Ruine. But if he brake through its Power, have the pains of it removed from him, do swallow it up into Victory, and rise Triumphantly into Immortality and Glory, then is our entrance into them also even by and after Death secured. And in the Resurrection of Christ the Church had the first unquestionable Evidence that Death might be Conquered, that it and the Curse might be separated, that there might be a free passage through it into Life and Immortality. These things Originally and in the first Covenant were inconsistent, nor was the Reconciliation of them evident under the Levitical Priesthood. But hereby was the Veil rent from top to bottom, and the most Holy place not made with hands laid open unto Believers. See Isa. 25. 7, 8.