A53678:1287
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.
Secondly, This [Greek or Hebrew] or Perfection respects the Worship of the Gospel as well as the Persons of the Worshippers, and the Grace whereof they are made Partakers. God had designed the Church unto a more perfect state in point of Worship, than it was capable of under the Levitical Priesthood. Nor indeed could any Man reasonably think, or wisely judge, that he intended the Institutions of the Law, as the complete ultimate Worship and Service that he would require or appoint in this World, seeing our Natures, as renewed by Grace, are capable of that which is more Spiritual and Sublime. For,
Secondly, This 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or Perfection respects the Worship of the Gospel as well as the Persons of the Worshippers, and the Grace whereof they are made Partakers. God had designed the Church unto a more perfect state in point of Worship, than it was capable of under the Levitical Priesthood. Nor indeed could any Man reasonably think, or wisely judge, that he intended the Institutions of the Law, as the compleat ultimate Worship and Service that he would require or appoint in this VVorld, seeing our Natures, as renewed by Grace, are capable of that which is more Spiritual and Sublime. For,
1. They were in their Nature Carnal, as our Apostle declares, ver. 16. and Chap. 9. 10. The Subject of them all, the means of their Celebration were Carnal things, beneath those pure Spiritual Acts of the Mind and Soul, which are of a more Noble Nature. They consisted in Meats and Drinks, the Blood of Bulls and Goats, the Observation of Moons and Festivals, in a Temple made of Wood and Stone, Gold and Silver, things Carnal, perishing, and transitory. Certainly God, who is a Spirit, and will be Worshipped in Spirit and in Truth, designed at one time or other a Worship more suited unto his own Nature, though the Imposition of these things on the Church for a Season, was Necessary. And as they were Carnal, so they might be exactly performed by Men of Carnal Minds, and were so for the most part; in which respect God himself speaks often with a great undervaluation of them: See