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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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1. Some seek for a Solution of this Difficulty from Ezek. 20. ver. 11. compared with ver. 25. Ver. 11. God saith, That I gave them my Statutes, and showed them my Judgments, which if a Man do, he shall live in them. But ver. 25. I gave them also Statutes that were not Good, and Judgments whereby they should not live. The first sort of Laws, they say, were the Decalogue, with those other Judgments that accompanied it, which were given unto the People as Gods Covenant before they broke it by making the Golden Calf. These were Good in themselves, and Good unto the People, so as if they did them they should live therein. But after the People had broken the Covenant in making of a Golden Calf, God gave them that whole System of Ordinances, Institutions, and Laws which ensued. These, they say, in that ⟨p. 199⟩place of Ezekiel God calls Ordinances that were not Good, and Judgements whereby they should not live, as being imposed on the People in the way of Punishment. And with respect unto these they say it is, that the Apostle affirms the Commandment was weak and unprofitable.
1. Some seek for a Solution of this Difficulty from Ezek. 20. ver. 11. compared with ver. 25. Ver. 11. God saith, That I gave them my Statutes, and shewed them my Judgments, which if a Man do, he shall live in them. But ver. 25. I gave them also Statutes that were not Good, and Judgments whereby they should not live. The first sort of Laws, they say, were the Decalogue, with those other Judgments that accompanied it, which were given unto the People as Gods Covenant before they broke it by making the Golden Calf. These were Good in themselves, and Good unto the People, so as if they did them they should live therein. But after the People had broken the Covenant in making of a Golden Calf, God gave them that whole System of Ordinances, Institutions, and Laws which ensued. These, they say, in that ⟨p. 199⟩place of Ezekiel God calls Ordinances that were not Good, and Judgements whereby they should not live, as being imposed on the People in the way of Punishment. And with respect unto these they say it is, that the Apostle affirms the Commandment was weak and unprofitable.