A53678:1352
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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And the force of the Argument here insisted on by the Apostle against the absolute perpetuity of the Law, which was of Old, and yet continueth to be the Head of the Controversy between the Jews and the Church of Christ, is so unavoidable, that some of them have been compelled to acknowledge that in the Days of the Messiah Legal Sacrifices and the rest of their Ceremonies shall cease; though the most of them understand that their Cause is given away thereby. And they have no other way to free themselves from this Argument of the Apostle, but by denying that Melchizedek was a Priest, or that it is the Messiah who is Prophesied of, Psal. 110. which evidences of a desperate Cause, and more desperate Defenders of it, have been elsewhere convinced of Folly. Wherefore this important Argument is confirmed by our Apostle in the ensuing Verses. And we may see,
And the force of the Argument here insisted on by the Apostle against the absolute perpetuity of the Law, which was of Old, and yet continueth to be the Head of the Controversie between the Jews and the Church of Christ, is so unavoidable, that some of them have been compelled to acknowledge that in the Days of the Messiah Legal Sacrifices and the rest of their Ceremonies shall cease; though the most of them understand that their Cause is given away thereby. And they have no other way to free themselves from this Argument of the Apostle, but by denying that Melchisedec was a Priest, or that it is the Messiah who is Prophesied of, Psal. 110. which evidences of a desperate Cause, and more desperate Defenders of it, have been elsewhere convinced of Folly. Wherefore this important Argument is confirmed by our Apostle in the ensuing Verses. And we may see,
1. How it is a fruit of the manifold Wisdom of God, that it was a great Mercy to give the Law, and a greater to take it away. And