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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 18, 19: VER. 18, 19.
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 whole of this System of Laws, is called [Greek or Hebrew] a Command, because it consisted [Greek or Hebrew], in arbitrary Commands and Precepts, regulated by that Maxim; The man that doth these things shall live by them. Rom. 10. 5. And therefore the Law, as a Command, is opposed unto the Gospel, as a Promise of Righteousness by Jesus Christ. Gal. 3. 11, 12. Nor is it the whole Ceremonial Law only that is intended by the Command in this place; but the Moral Law also, so far as it was compacted with the other into one Body of Precepts for the same End. For with respect unto the Efficacy of the whole Law of Moses as unto our drawing nigh unto God, it is here considered.
And the whole of this System of Laws, is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a Command, because it consisted 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in arbitrary Commands and Precepts, regulated by that Maxim; The man that doth these things shall live by them. Rom. 10. 5. And therefore the Law, as a Command, is opposed unto the Gospel, as a Promise of Righteousness by Jesus Christ. Gal. 3. 11, 12. Nor is it the whole Ceremonial Law only that is intended by the Command in this place; but the Moral Law also, so far as it was compacted with the other into one Body of Precepts for the same End. For with respect unto the Efficacy of the whole Law of Moses as unto our drawing nigh unto God, it is here considered.
2. This Commandment is described by the Time of its giving; it is [Greek or Hebrew]; it went before, that is, before the Gospel as now preached and dispensed. It did ⟨p. 195⟩