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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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I have proved before that the Commandment in this verse is of equal extent and signification with the Law in the next. And the Law there doth evidently intend the whole Law, in both the parts of it, Moral and Ceremonial, as it was given by Moses unto the Church of Israel. And this whole Law is here charged by our Apostle with weakness and unprofitableness, both which make a Law fit to be disannulled. But it must be acknowledged that there is a Difficulty of no small Importance in the assignation of these Imperfections unto the Law: For this Law was given by God himself. And how can it be supposed that the Good and Holy God should prescribe such a Law unto his People, as was always weak and unprofitable. From this and the like considerations the Blasphemous Manichees denied that the Good God was the Author of the Old Testament, and the Jews continue still upon it to reject the Gospel, as not allowing the least Imperfection in the law, but equalling it almost with God himself. We must therefore consider in what sense the Apostle ascribes these Properties unto the Law.
I have proved before that the Commandment in this verse is of equal extent and signification with the Law in the next. And the Law there doth evidently intend the whole Law, in both the parts of it, Moral and Ceremonial, as it was given by Moses unto the Church of Israel. And this whole Law is here charged by our Apostle with weakness and unprofitableness, both which make a Law fit to be disanulled. But it must be acknowledged that there is a Difficulty of no small Importance in the assignation of these Imperfections unto the Law: For this Law was given by God himself. And how can it be supposed that the Good and Holy God should prescribe such a Law unto his People, as was always weak and unprofitable. From this and the like considerations the Blasphemous Manichees denyed that the Good God was the Author of the Old Testament, and the Jews continue still upon it to reject the Gospel, as not allowing the least Imperfection in the law, but equalling it almost with God himself. VVe must therefore consider in what sense the Apostle ascribes these Properties unto the Law.
1. Some seek for a Solution of this Difficulty from