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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
Exegesis of chapter 7 › Exegesis of verses 15, 16, 17: VER. 15, 16, 17.
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.
2. Important Truths, should be strongly Confirmed. Such is that here pleaded by the Apostle, and therefore doth he so labour in the Confirmation of it. He had undertaken to convince the Hebrews of the Cessation of their Legal Worship, out of their own acknowledged Principles. He deals not with them merely by his Apostolical ⟨p. 187⟩Authority, and by virtue of the Divine Revelations of the will of God which himself had received; but he proceeds with them on Arguments taken out of the Types, Institutions and Testimonies of the Old Testament, all which they owned and acknowledged, though without his aid they had not understood the meaning of them. On this Supposition it was necessary for him to Plead and Press all the Arguments from the Topic mentioned, which had any Cogency in them; and he doth so accordingly.
2. Important Truths, should be strongly Confirmed. Such is that here pleaded by the Apostle, and therefore doth he so labour in the Confirmation of it. He had undertaken to convince the Hebrews of the Cessation of their Legal Worship, out of their own acknowledged Principles. He deals not with them meerly by his Apostolical ⟨p. 187⟩Authority, and by vertue of the Divine Revelations of the will of God which himself had received; but he proceeds with them on Arguments taken out of the Types, Institutions and Testimonies of the Old Testament, all which they owned and acknowledged, though without his aid they had not understood the meaning of them. On this Supposition it was necessary for him to Plead and Press all the Arguments from the Topick mentioned, which had any Cogency in them; and he doth so accordingly.
3. Arguments that are equally true, may yet on the Account of Evidence not be equally Cogent; yet