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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. It was so abrogated Declaratively; or the Will of God concerning its Abrogation was made known four ways.
1. In general by the Promulgation and Preaching of the Gospel, where the Accomplishment and Cessation of it was declared. For the Declaration made that the Messiah was come, that he had finished his work in the World, and thereby made an End of Sin, bringing in Everlasting Righteousness, whereby the Law was fulfilled, did sufficiently manifest its Abrogation. The Apostles, I confess, in their first Preaching to the Jews spake not of it expressly, but left it to discover it self as an undeniable consequent of what they taught, concerning the Lord Christ and the Righteousness of God in him. This for some while many of them, that Believed, understood not, and therefore were Zealous of the Law, which God in his Patience and Forbearance did Graciously tolerate so, as not to impute it unto them. It was indeed great Darkness and manifold Prejudices that hindered the Believing Jews from seeing the necessary consequence unto the Abolition of the Law from the Promulgation of the Gospel: Yet this was God pleased to bear with them in, that we might not be too fierce, nor reflect with too much Severity on such as are not able in all things to receive the whole Truth as we desire they should.
1. In general by the Promulgation and Preaching of the Gospel, where the Accomplishment and Cessation of it was declared. For the Declaration made that the Messiah was come, that he had finished his work in the VVorld, and thereby made an End of Sin, bringing in Everlasting Righteousness, whereby the Law was fulfilled, did sufficiently manifest its Abrogation. The Apostles, I confess, in their first Preaching to the Jews spake not of it expresly, but left it to discover it self as an undeniable consequent of what they taught, concerning the Lord Christ and the Righteousness of God in him. This for some while many of them, that Believed, understood not, and therefore were Zealous of the Law, which God in his Patience and Forbearance did Graciously tolerate so, as not to impute it unto them. It was indeed great Darkness and manifold Prejudices that hindred the Believing Jews from seeing the necessary consequence unto the Abolition of the Law from the Promulgation of the Gospel: Yet this was God pleased to bear with them in, that we might not be too fierce, nor reflect with too much Severity on such as are not able in all things to receive the whole Truth as we desire they should.