A53678:1305
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.
To look for Glory in Evangelical Worship from outward Ceremonies and Carnal Ordinances, is to prefer the Levitical Priesthood before that of Christ. That which we are to look for in our worship is a [Greek or Hebrew], such a Perfection as we are capable of in this world. This the Apostle denies unto the Levitical Priesthood, and ascribes it unto the Priesthood of Christ. But if such a Perfection be to be found in Ceremonies and Ordinances outwardly Pompous and Glorious, upon Necessity the contrary conclusion must be made and affirmed. But yet so it is come to pass in the world, that Men do order things in their Public worship, as if they judged that the pure immixed worship of the Gospel had no Glory, in comparison of that of the Law, which did excel, and whereunto they do more or less conform themselves. But it is time for us to proceed with our Apostle.
To look for Glory in Evangelical Worship from outward Ceremonies and Carnal Ordinances, is to prefer the Levitical Priesthood before that of Christ. That which we are to look for in our worship is a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, such a Perjection as we are capable of in this world. This the Apostle denies unto the Levitical Priesthood, and ascribes it unto the Priesthood of Christ. But if such a Perfection be to be found in Ceremonies and Ordinances outwardly Pompous and Glorious, upon Necessity the contrary conclusion must be made and affirmed. But yet so it is come to pass in the world, that Men do order things in their Publick worship, as if they judged that the pure immixed worship of the Gospel had no Glory, in comparison of that of the Law, which did excel, and whereunto they do more or less conform themselves. But it is time for us to proceed with our Apostle.
Having denied Perfection unto the Levitical Priesthood, which he lays down in a Supposition including a Negation, so as to make way for the Proof of what he denied; for the further Explication of it, and Application unto his present purpose, he adds the respect that their Priesthood had to the Law, intending thereby to bring the Law it self under the same censure of disability and insufficiency.