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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.
4. As unto those of the Hebrews, who yet would not understand these express Declarations of the ceasing of the Obligatory Power of the Law, to put an end unto all Disputes about his will in this Matter, God gave a dreadful [Greek or Hebrew] or Abolition unto it, in the total, final, irrevocable Destruction of the City and Temple, with all the Instruments and Vessels of its Worship, especially of the Priesthood, and all that belonged thereunto. Thus was the Law disannulled, and thus was it declared so to be.
4. As unto those of the Hebrews, who yet would not understand these express Declarations of the ceasing of the Obligatory Power of the Law, to put an end unto all Disputes about his will in this Matter, God gave a dreadful 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or Abolition unto it, in the total, final, irrevocable Destruction of the City and Temple, with all the Instruments and Vessels of its VVorship, especially of the Priesthood, and all that belonged thereunto. Thus was the Law disanulled, and thus was it declared so to be.
Obs. 1. It is a matter of the highest Nature and Importance to set up or take away, to remove any thing from, or change any thing in the Worship of God. Unless the Authority of God interpose, and be manifested so to do, there is nothing for Conscience to rest in, in these things. And
2. The Revelation of the Will of God, in things relating unto his Worship, is very difficultly received, where the minds of Men are prepossessed with Prejudices and Traditions. Notwithstanding all those ways whereby God had revealed his mind concerning the Abolition of the Mosaical Institutions, yet these Hebrews could neither understand it nor receive it, until the whole Seat of its Worship was destroyed and Consumed.