A53678:1280
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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2. As by his Death, Resurrection, and entrance into Glory He gave a Pledge, Example, and Evidence unto the Church of that in his own Person, which he had designed for it; so the Grounds of it were laid in the Expiatory Sacrifice which he Offered, whereby he took away the Curse from Death: There was such a close Conjunction between Death and the Curse, such a Combination between Sin, the Law, and Death, that the breaking of that Conjunction, and the dissolving of that Combination was the greatest Effect of Divine Wisdom and Grace, which our Apostle so Triumpheth in, 1 Cor. 15. 54, 55, 56, 57. This could no otherwise be brought about, but by his being made a Curse in Death, or bearing the Curse which was in Death, in our stead, Gal. 3. 13.
3. He hath clearly declared unto the utmost of our Capacities in this World that future state of Blessedness and Glory, which he will lead all his Disciples into. All the concernments hereof under the Levitical Priesthood, were represented only under the obscure Types and Shadows of Earthly things. But he hath abolished Death, and brought Life and Immortality to light through the Gospel, 2 Tim. 1. 10. He destroyed and abolished him who had the Power of Death, in taking away the Curse from it, Chap. 2. 14. And he abolished Death it self in the removal of those dark shades which it cast on Immortality and Eternal Life; and hath opened an abundant entrance into the Kingdom of God and Glory. He hath unveiled the uncreated Beauties of the King of Glory, and opened the Everlasting Doors, to give an insight into those Mansions of Rest, Peace, and Blessedness which are prepared for Believers in the Everlasting Enjoyment of God. And these things constitute no small part of that consummate state of the Church which God designed, and which the Levitical Priesthood could no way effect.