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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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3. There was a Determination made in the case by the Holy Ghost upon an occasion administered thereunto. Those of the Apostles, who Preached the Gospel unto the Gentiles, had made no mention unto them of the Law of Moses, as knowing, that it was nailed unto the Cross of Christ, and taken out of the way. So were they brought unto the Faith and Obedience of the Gospel without any respect unto the Law, as that wherein they were not concerned, now it had received its Accomplishment. But some of the Jews who Believed, being yet persuaded that the Law was to be continued in force, and its Observation imposed on all that were Proselyted by the Gospel, occasion was given unto that Solemn Determination which was made by the Apostles through the Guidance of the Holy Ghost, Acts 15. And the Substance of that Determination was this; that the Gospel, as Preached unto the Gentiles, was not a way or means of Proselyting them unto Judaism, but the bringing them ⟨p. 198⟩unto a new Church-state by an Interest in the Promise and Covenant of Abraham, given and made 430 Years before the giving of the Law. Whilst the Law stood in its force, whoever was Proselyted unto the Truth, he was so unto the Law, and every Gentile that was Converted unto the true God, was bound to be Circumcised, and became obliged unto the whole Law. But that being now disannulled, it is Solemnly declared, that the Gentiles Converted by the Gospel, were under no obligation unto the Law of Moses, but being received into the Covenant of Abraham, were to be gathered into a new Church-state erected in and by the Lord Christ in the Gospel.
3. There was a Determination made in the case by the Holy Ghost upon an occasion administred thereunto. Those of the Apostles, who Preached the Gospel unto the Gentiles, had made no mention unto them of the Law of Moses, as knowing, that it was nailed unto the Cross of Christ, and taken out of the way. So were they brought unto the Faith and Obedience of the Gospel without any respect unto the Law, as that wherein they were not concerned, now it had received its Accomplishment. But some of the Jews who Believed, being yet perswaded that the Law was to be continued in force, and its Observation imposed on all that were Proselyted by the Gospel, occasion was given unto that Solemn Determination which was made by the Apostles through the Guidance of the Holy Ghost,