A53678:1431
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.
How is Christ then made a Priest according to the Power of an endless Life? That 1is, saith one in his Paraphrase, installed into the Priesthood after his Resurrection. What is meant by installed, I well know not. It should seem to be the same with [Greek or Hebrew], Consecrated, Dedicated, Initiated. And if so, this Exposition diverts wholly from the Truth. For Christ was installed into his Office of Priesthood before his Resurrection, or he did not Offer himself as a Sacrifice unto God in his Death and Blood-shedding. And to suppose that the Lord Christ discharged and performed the principal Act of his Sacerdotal Office, which was but once to be performed, before he was installed a Priest, is contradictory to, Scripture and Reason it self. Ideo ad vitam im mortalem perductus est, ut in aeternum sacrdos noster esset. He was therefore brought unto an Immortal Life, that he might be our Priest for ever, saith another. But this is not to be made a Priest according to the Power of an endless Life. If he means, that he might always continue to be a Priest, and to execute that Office always unto the consummation of all things; what he says is true, but not the sense of this place: but if he means, that he became Immortal after his Resurrection, that he might be our Priest, and abide so for ever, it excludes his Oblation in his Death from being a proper Sacerdotal Act, which that it was, I have sufficiently proved elsewhere, against Crellius and others.
How is Christ then made a Priest according to the Power of an endless Life? That 1is, saith one in his Paraphrase, installed into the Priesthood after his Resurrection. VVhat is meant by installed, I well know not. It should seem to be the same with 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Consecrated, Dedicated, Initiated. And if so, this Exposition diverts wholly from the Truth. For Christ was installed into his Office of Priesthood before his Resurrection, or he did not Offer himself as a Sacrifice unto God in his Death and Blood-shedding. And to suppose that the Lord Christ discharged and performed the principal Act of his Sacerdotal Office, which was but once to be performed, before he was installed a Priest, is contradictory to, Scripture and Reason it self. Ideo ad vitam im mortalem perductus est, ut in aeternum sacrdos noster esset. He was therefore brought unto an Immortal Life, that he might be our Priest for ever, saith another. But this is not to be made a Priest according to the Power of an endless Life. If he means, that he might always continue to be a Priest, and to execute that Office always unto the consummation of all things; what he says is true, but not the sence of this place: but if he means, that he became Immortal after his Resurrection, that he might be our Priest, and abide so for ever, it excludes his Oblation in his Death from being a proper Sacerdotal Act, which that it was, I have sufficiently proved elsewhere, against Crellius and others.