A53678:1308
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.
1. The Subject spoken of is [Greek or Hebrew], the People, that is in the Wilderness, the 1Body of the Church, to whom the Law and Priesthood were given immediately by the Ministry of Moses. But after this the whole Posterity of Abraham in their successive Generations were one People, with them, and are so esteemed. For a People is still the same, and as a People never dies till all Individuals that belong unto it are cut off. So by this People the whole Church of all Ages under the Old Testament is intended.
1. The Subject spoken of is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the People, that is in the Wilderness, the 1Body of the Church, to whom the Law and Priesthood were given immediately by the Ministry of Moses. But after this the whole Posterity of Abraham in their successive Generations were one People, with them, and are so esteemed. For a People is still the same, and as a People never dies till all Individuals that belong unto it are cut off. So by this People the whole Church of all Ages under the Old Testament is intended.
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2. Of this People he says, [Greek or Hebrew], they were Legalized. They were also Evangelized, as our Apostle speaks, Chap. 4. 2. They were so in the Promise 1made unto Abraham, and in the many Types of Christ and his Offices and Sacrifice that were instituted among them. Yet were they at the same time so brought under the Power of the Law, as that they had not the Light, Liberty, and Comfort of the Gospel, which we enjoy. [Greek or Hebrew], is legem far, legem sancire, legem imponere; to make, constitute, impose a Law. And the Passive [Greek or Hebrew], when applied unto Persons, is legi latae subjici, or legem latam accipere, to be made Subject unto a Law; to receive the Law made to oblige them. So is it used in this place. We have therefore not amiss rendered it, received the Law. The People received the Law. But the sense of that Expression is regulated by the Nature of a Law. They so received it, as to be made Subject unto it, as to be obliged by it. Other things may be otherwise received; but a Law is received by coming under its Obligation. They were brought under the Power, Authority, and Obligation of the Law. Or because the Law was the Foundation and Instrument of their whole state, both in things Sacred and Civil, the meaning of the word may be, they were brought into that state and condition whereinto the Law disposed them.