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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.
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Ans. There are two ways whereby any Law may be disannulled or abrogated. First, By taking away all Authority and use from it as unto its proper end, whilst it is in its pretended force. For suppose it to be made for ever or for a time only, its Abrogation is its deprivation of all Authority and Use as a Law. And this cannot regularly be done, but on one of these accounts. (1) That the Authority giving the Law was not valued from the Beginning, but men have been obliged unto it on a false presumption thereof. (2) That the matter of it was never Good, or useful, or meet to be made the matter of Law. On neither of these accounts could this Law be abolished, nor ever was so by the Lord Christ or the Gospel, nor is so to this day. For God himself was the immediate Author of it, whose Authority is Sovereign and over all; and thence also it follows, that the matter of it was Good. For the Commandment, as our Apostle speaks, was Holy, Just, and Good, Rom. ⟨p. 196⟩7. 12. And however there be a difference between that which is Morally Good in it self and its own Nature, and that which is so only by Divine Institution; yet the Revealed Will of God is the adequate Rule of Good and Evil unto us, as unto our Obedience. On these Accounts therefore, it never was, nor ever could be abolished.
Ans. There are two ways whereby any Law may be disanulled or abrogated. First, By taking away all Authority and use from it as unto its proper end, whilst it is in its pretended force. For suppose it to be made for ever or for a time only, its Abrogation is its deprivation of all Authority and Use as a Law. And this cannot regularly be done, but on one of these accounts. (1) That the Authority giving the Law was not valued from the Beginning, but men have been obliged unto it on a false presumption thereof. (2) That the matter of it was never Good, or usefull, or meet to be made the matter of Law. On neither of these accounts could this Law be abolished, nor ever was so by the Lord Christ or the Gospel, nor is so to this day. For God himself was the immediate Author of it, whose Authority is Soveraign and over all; and thence also it follows, that the matter of it was Good. For the Commandement, as our Apostle speaks, was Holy, Just, and Good, Rom. ⟨p. 196⟩