A53678:1365
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.
3. He Describes in general this other Tribe whereof he was, by its Legal exclusion from all the Service of the Altar; Of which no man gave attendance at the Altar. What Tribe that was in particular he declares in the next Verse, showing not only of what Tribe he was, but also what it was necessary he should be. Another Tribe, [Greek or Hebrew], whereof, from which none that was Genealogized, attended at the Altar; that is, had Right so to do, or was not forbidden by the Law so to do. 1God doth not reckon that to be done in his Service which he hath not appointed, much less which he hath forbidden. What other inroads were made on the Sacerdotal Office, we know not; but one of the Tribe here intended by the Apostle, whereof none was to attend the Altar, did draw nigh to Offer Incense, for which he was rebuked by the High priest, and punished of God, 2 Chron. 20. 18. And God exercised the greater Severity herein, that the Church might understand, that ⟨p. 180⟩[…] ⟨p. 181⟩[…] ⟨p. 182⟩when he introduced and allowed of a Priest of another Tribe, that Old Priesthood must of necessity cease and be abolished. No man gave attendance, that is, had Right so to do.
3. He Describes in general this other Tribe whereof he was, by its Legal exclusion from all the Service of the Altar; Of which no man gave attendance at the Altar. VVhat Tribe that was in particular he declares in the next Verse, shewing not only of what Tribe he was, but also what it was necessary he should be. Another Tribe, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, whereof, from which none that was Genealogized, attended at the Altar; that is, had Right so to do, or was not forbidden by the Law so to do. 1God doth not reckon that to be done in his Service which he hath not appointed, much less which he hath forbidden. VVhat other inroads were made on the Sacerdotal Office, we know not; but one of the Tribe here intended by the Apostle, whereof none was to attend the Altar, did draw nigh to Offer Incense, for which he was rebuked by the High priest, and punished of God,