A53678:1421
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.
1. For the first, we may observe that the whole Law of Worship among the Jews is called by our Apostle, [Greek or Hebrew], Ephes. 2. 15. The Law of Commandments in Ordinances. And it is so called for two Reasons.
1. For the first, we may observe that the whole Law of Worship among the Jews is called by our Apostle, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Ephes. 2. 15. The Law of Commandments in Ordinances. And it is so called for two Reasons.
(1.) Because Commands were so multiplied therein, that the whole Law was denominated from them. Hence it became [Greek or Hebrew], a Yoke hardly to be born, if not altogether intolerable, Acts 15. 10. (2.) Because of that Severity wherewith Obedience was exacted. A Command in its formal Notion expresseth Authority, and the multiplication of them Severity: And both these God designed to make Eminent in that Law; whence it hath this denomination, a Law of Commandments. Hereof the Law of the constitution of the Office of the Priesthood and the Call of Aaron thereunto, was a part, and he was therefore made a Priest by the Law of Commandments; that is, by a Preceptive Law, as a part of that System of Commands wherein the whole Law consisted. See this Law and all the Commands of it, Exod. 28. throughout.
(1.) Because Commands were so multiplyed therein, that the whole Law was denominated from them. Hence it became 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Yoke hardly to be born, if not altogether intolerable,