A53678:1336
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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This therefore our Apostle grants, that there was such a Repugnancy between the Law and the Gospel, as unto the Ends of Righteousness and Divine Worship, as that one of them must of Necessity be parted withal. Wherefore the whole Controversy turning on this hinge, it was highly incumbent on him to manifest and prove that the Law did now cease, according unto the Appointment of God; and that God had of old designed, fore-told, and promised, that so it should do, and be abolished upon the Introduction of that which was the End and Substance of it. And this I look upon as the greatest Trial the Faith of Men ever had in the concerns of Religion; namely, to believe that God should take away, abolish, and leave as dead and useless, that whole System of Solemn Worship which he had appointed in so Glorious a manner, and accepted for so many Generations. But yet as we are to acquiesce in the Sovereign pleasure of God made known by Revelation against all Reasonings of our own whatsoever: So it must be confessed, that Faith was greatly bespoken and prepared by the Nature, End, and Use of all those Institutions, which more than intimated, that they were appointed only for a time, and served to introduce a more Glorious Dispensation of Divine Wisdom and Grace.
This therefore our Apostle grants, that there was such a Repugnancy between the Law and the Gospel, as unto the Ends of Righteousness and Divine Worship, as that one of them must of Necessity be parted withal. Wherefore the whole Controversie turning on this hinge, it was highly incumbent on him to manifest and prove that the Law did now cease, according unto the Appointment of God; and that God had of old designed, fore-told, and promised, that so it should do, and be abolished upon the Introduction of that which was the End and Substance of it. And this I look upon as the greatest Trial the Faith of Men ever had in the concerns of Religion; namely, to believe that God should take away, abolish, and leave as dead and useless, that whole System of Solemn Worship which he had appointed in so Glorious a manner, and accepted for so many Generations. But yet as we are to acquiesce in the Soveraign pleasure of God made known by Revelation against all Reasonings of our own whatsoever: So it must be confessed, that Faith was greatly bespoken and prepared by the Nature, End, and Use of all those Institutions, which more than intimated, that they were appointed only for a time, and served to introduce a more Glorious Dispensation of Divine Wisdom and Grace.