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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.
Obs. Put all Advantages and Privileges whatever together, and they will bring nothing to Perfection without Jesus Christ. God manifested this in all his Revelations and Institutions. His Revelations from the Foundation of the world were gradual and partial, increasing the light of the knowledge of his Glory from Age to Age. But put them all together from the first Promise, with all Expositions of it, and Additions unto it, with Prophesies of what should afterwards come to pass, taking in also the Ministry of John the Baptist; yet did they not all of them together make a perfect Revelation of God his Mind and Will, as he will be known and worshipped, Heb. 1. 1. John 1. 18. So also was there great variety in his Institutions. Some were of great Efficacy, and of clearer Significancy than others. But all of them put together made nothing perfect. Much more will all the ways that others shall find out to attain Righteousness, Peace, Light and life before God, come short of Rest or Perfection.
Obs. Put all Advantages and Priviledges whatever together, and they will bring nothing to Perfection without Jesus Christ. God manifested this in all his Revelations and Institutions. His Revelations from the Foundation of the world were gradual and partial, increasing the light of the knowledge of his Glory from Age to Age. But put them all together from the first Promise, with all Expositions of it, and Additions unto it, with Prophesies of what should afterwards come to pass, taking in also the Ministry of John the Baptist; yet did they not all of them together make a perfect Revelation of God his Mind and Will, as he will be known and worshipped, Heb. 1. 1. John 1. 18. So also was there great variety in his Institutions. Some were of great Efficacy, and of clearer Significancy than others. But all of them put together made nothing perfect. Much more will all the ways that others shall find out to attain Righteousness, Peace, Light and life before God, come short of Rest or Perfection.
The last thing considerable in these words is the Reason whereby the Apostle proves, That in the Judgment of the Holy Ghost himself Perfection was not attainable by the Levitical Priesthood. For if it were, what farther need was there that another Priest should arise after the Order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the Order of Aaron?