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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.
3. Arguments that are equally true, may yet on the Account of Evidence not be equally Cogent; yet
4. In the Confirmation of the Truth we may use every help that is true and seasonable, though some of them may be more effectual unto our End, than others.
This we are instructed in by the Apostle, affirming in this place, that what he now affirms is yet far more Evident. And this Evidence, as we observed before, may respect either the things themselves, or the Efficacy in point of Argument. For in themselves all things under the old Testament were Typical and Significant of what was afterwards to be introduced. So our Apostle tells us that the Ministry of Moses consisted in giving Testimony to those things which were to be spoken or declared afterwards, chap. 3. 5. But among them some were far more Clear and Evident as to their signification than others were. In the latter sense the things which he had discoursed about Melchizedek and his Priesthood, were more effectually demonstrative of the Change of the Levitical Priesthood, than what he had newly observed concerning the Rising of our Lord Jesus Christ not of the Tribe of Levi but of Judah, although that had life and evidence also in it self, which is principally intended.
This we are instructed in by the Apostle, affirming in this place, that what he now affirms is yet far more Evident. And this Evidence, as we observed before, may respect either the things themselves, or the Efficacy in point of Argument. For in themselves all things under the old Testament were Typical and Significant of what was afterwards to be introduced. So our Apostle tells us that the Ministry of Moses consisted in giving Testimony to those things which were to be spoken or declared afterwards, chap. 3. 5. But among them some were far more Clear and Evident as to their signification than others were. In the latter sense the things which he had discoursed about Melchisedec and his Priesthood, were more effectually demonstrative of the Change of the Levitical Priesthood, than what he had newly observed concerning the Rising of our Lord Jesus Christ not of the Tribe of Levi but of Judah, although that had life and evidence also in it self, which is principally intended.