A53678:1510
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
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.
VER. 19.
For the Law made nothing Perfect, but the bringing in of a better Hope, whereby we draw nigh unto God.
The Disannulling or Abolition of the Law was laid down in the precedent verse, as a necessary consequent of its being weak and unprofitable. For when a Law hath been tried, and it is found liable unto this Charge, it is equal and even necessary that it should be disannulled; if the End aimed at, be necessary to be attained, and there be any thing else to be substituted in its Room, whereby it may so be. This therefore the Apostle declares in this Verse, giving the Reasons in particular of what he had before asserted in general. So the Causal Connection [Greek or Hebrew], For, doth intimate. 1And
The Disanulling or Abolition of the Law was laid down in the precedent verse, as a necessary consequent of its being weak and unprofitable. For when a Law hath been tried, and it is found liable unto this Charge, it is equal and even necessary that it should be disanulled; if the End aimed at, be necessary to be attained, and there be any thing else to be substituted in its Room, whereby it may so be. This therefore the Apostle declares in this Verse, giving the Reasons in particular of what he had before asserted in general. So the Causal Connexion , For, doth intimate.