A53678:1291
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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3. Their Instructive Efficacy, which is the Principal End of the Ordinances of Divine Worship was weak, and no way answered the Power and Evidence of Gospel-Institutions, Chap. 10. 1. Therefore was the way of Teaching by them intricate, and the way of Learning difficult. Hence is that difference which is put between the Teachings under the Old Testament and the New. For now it is Promised that Men shall not teach every Man his Brother, and every Man his Neighbour, saying, know the Lord, as it was of Old. The means of Instruction were so dark and cloudy, and having only a shadow of the things themselves that were to be taught, and not the very Image of them, that it was needful that they should be continually inculcated to keep up the knowledge of the very Rudiments of Religion. Besides, they had many Ordinances, Rites, and Ceremonies imposed on them to increase their Yoke, whereof they understood nothing but only that it was the Sovereign pleasure and will of God, that they should Observe them, though they understood not of what Use they were: And they were Obliged unto no less an exact Observance of them, than they were unto that of those which were the clearest and most lightsome.
3. Their Instructive Efficacy, which is the Principal End of the Ordinances of Divine VVorship was weak, and no way answered the Power and Evidence of Gospel-Institutions, Chap. 10. 1. Therefore was the way of Teaching by them intricate, and the way of Learning difficult. Hence is that difference which is put between the Teachings under the Old Testament and the New. For now it is Promised that Men shall not teach every Man his Brother, and every Man his Neighbour, saying, know the Lord, as it was of Old. The means of Instruction were so dark and cloudy, and having only a shadow of the things themselves that were to be taught, and not the very Image of them, that it was needful that they should be continually incalcated to keep up the knowledge of the very Rudiments of Religion. Besides, they had many Ordinances, Rites, and Ceremonies imposed on them to increase their Yoke, whereof they understood nothing but only that it was the Soveraign pleasure and will of God, that they should Observe them, though they understood not of what Use they were: And they were Obliged unto no less an exact Observance of them, than they were unto that of those which were the clearest and most lightsome.