A53678:1441
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.
And the Apostle had sufficient Reason to affirm that what he proposed was eminently manifest, namely, from the Testimony which he produceth thereof. For what can be more evident than that the Aaronical Priesthood was to be abolished, if so be that God had designed and promised to raise up another Priest in the Church, who was neither of the Stock nor Order of Aaron, nor called the same way to his Office, as he was, and who when he was so raised and called, was to continue a Priest for ever, leaving no room for the continuance of that Priesthood in the Church, nor place for its return when it was once laid aside? And we may observe that,
1. The Eternal continuance of Christs Person gives Eternal continuance and efficacy unto his Office. Because he lives for ever, he is a Priest for ever. His endless life is the Foundation of his endless Priesthood. Whilst he lives we want not a Priest; and therefore he says, that because he lives, we shall live also.
2. To make new Priests in the Church, is virtually to renounce the Faith of his living for ever as our Priest, or to suppose that he is not sufficient to the Discharge of his Office.