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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.
Secondly, We must enquire how this was done, or how this Law was Abrogated, as to its Obligatory Power and Efficacy. And this was done two ways.
Secondly, VVe must enquire how this was done, or how this Law was Abrogated, as to its Obligatory Power and Efficacy. And this was done two ways.
1. Really and virtually. This was done by Christ himself in his own Person. For the fulfilling and accomplishing of it was that which really and virtually took away all its Obligatory Power. For what should it oblige Men unto? An Answer is ready unto all its Demands, namely, that they are fulfilled: and as unto what was Significative in its Duties, it is all really exhibited; so that on no Account it can any more Oblige or Command the Consciences of Men. This the Apostle sets out in a comparison with the Relation that is between a Man and his Wife with the Obligation unto mutual Duties that ensues thereon, Rom. 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Whilst the Husband is alive, the Wife is Obliged unto all Conjugal Duties towards him and unto him alone. But upon his Death that Obligation ceaseth of it self, and she is at liberty to Marry unto another. So were we Obliged unto the Law, whilst it was alive, whilst it stood in its force and vigour: But when through the Death of Christ the Law was accomplished, it died as to the Relation which was between it and us, whereon all its Obligation unto Observance was disannulled. This was that, whereby the Law was really and virtually abrogated. Its preceptive part being fulfilled, and its Significative being exhibited, it was of no more Force or Efficacy as a Law. The Reason why it was thus to have an end put unto it, is declared in the Close of the Verse.
1. Really and virtually. This was done by Christ himself in his own Person. For the fulfilling and accomplishing of it was that which really and virtually took away all its Obligatory Power. For what should it oblige Men unto? An Answer is ready unto all its Demands, namely, that they are fulfilled: and as unto what was Significative in its Duties, it is all really exhibited; so that on no Account it can any more Oblige or Command the Consciences of Men. This the Apostle sets out in a comparison with the Relation that is between a Man and his Wife with the Obligation unto mutual Duties that ensues thereon,