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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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2. The Law may be considered with respect unto the particular Duties, that it required and prescribed. And because the whole Law had its End, these were appointed only until that End might be or was attained. So saith our Apostle, They were imposed until the Time of Reformation, Chap. 9. 10. Wherefore two things did accompany this Law in its first Institution. (1.) That an Obedience unto its Commands would not produce the Good which it directed unto, as formally respecting the Law it self. (2.) That the Duties it required had a limited time for their Performance and Acceptance allotted unto them. Wherefore without the least Disparagement unto it, as unto the Authority whereby it was given, or as unto its own Holiness and Goodness, it might be disannulled as unto its actual Obligation unto practice and observance of its Commands. For the End of it being fully accomplished, it is no less Established, than if the observance of it had been continued unto the end of the world. It was therefore Established by Christ and the Gospel as unto its End, Use, and Scope; it was disannulled as unto its Obligatory Power unto the observance of its Commands. For these two are inconsistent, ⟨p. 197⟩namely, that a Law, as unto all its Ends, should be fulfilled, and yet stand in force in its Obligatory Power unto Obedience.
2. The Law may be considered with respect unto the particular Duties, that it required and prescribed. And because the whole Law had its End, these were appointed only untill that End might be or was attained. So saith our Apostle, They were imposed untill the Time of Reformation, Chap. 9. 10. VVherefore two things did accompany this Law in its first Institution. (1.) That an Obedience unto its Commands would not produce the Good which it directed unto, as formally respecting the Law it self. (2.) That the Duties it required had a limited time for their Performance and Acceptance allotted unto them. VVherefore without the least Disparagement unto it, as unto the Authority whereby it was given, or as unto its own Holiness and Goodness, it might be disanulled as unto its actual Obligation unto practice and observance of its Commands. For the End of it being fully accomplished, it is no less Established, than if the observance of it had been continued unto the end of the world. It was therefore Established by Christ and the Gospel as unto its End, Use, and Scope; it was disanulled as unto its Obligatory Power unto the observance of its Commands. For these two are inconsistent,