A53678:1302
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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5. The Outward Rites of it are few, lightsome, easy to be observed, without scrupulous tormenting fears, nor such as by attendance unto Bodily Services do divert the Mind from that Communion with God which they are a means of.
5. The Outward Rites of it are few, lightsome, easie to be observed, without scrupulous tormenting fears, nor such as by attendance unto Bodily Services do divert the Mind from that Communion with God which they are a means of.
Thirdly, It is Instructive, and that with clearness and evidence of the things which we are to know and learn. This was a great part of the Imperfection of Legal Institutions, that they taught the things which they signified and represented Obscurely, and the Mind of God in them was not learned but with much difficulty, no small part of their Obedience consisting in a resignation of their Understandings unto God's Sovereignty, as to the Use and the End of the things wherein they were exercised in his Worship. But all the Ordinances and Institutions of the Gospel do give light into, and exhibit the things themselves unto the Minds and Faith of Believers. Hereon they discern the Reasons and Grounds of their Use and Benefit; whence our whole Worship is called our Reasonable Service, Rom. 12. 1. Thus in the Preaching of the Word, Jesus Christ is evidently set forth Crucified among us, Gal. 3. 1. not darkly represented in Types and Shadows. And in the Sacrament of the Supper we do plainly show forth his Death until he comes, 1 Cor. 11. 26. And the like may be said of all other Evangelical Institutions. And the principal Reason hereof is, because they do not represent or shadow things to come, no, nor yet things absent, as did those of Old; but they really present and exhibit Spiritual things, Christ and the Benefits of his Mediation unto our Souls. And in the observance of them we are not kept at a distance, but have an Admission unto the Holy place not made with hands, because Christ, who is the Minister of