A53678:1531
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.
Hope therefore is used here Metonymically, to design the thing hoped for. From the giving of the first Promise, and throughout under the Dispensation of the 1Law, Christ and his coming into the World were the Hope of all Believers, the ⟨p. 205⟩great thing which they desired, longed and hoped for. Hence was he called, the Desire of all Nations, Hag. 2. that which the Secret desires of the whole Race of Mankind worked towards. And in the Church, which enjoyed the Promises, they rejoiced in the fore-sight of it, as did Abraham; and desired to see its Day, as did the Prophets, diligently enquiring into the time and season of the Accomplishment of those Revelations, which they had received concerning him, 1 Pet. 1. 11, 12. It is not therefore the Doctrine of the Gospel, with its Precepts and Promises (as some suppose) which is here intended; any other ways but as it is a Declaration of the coming of Christ, and the Discharge of his Office: For without a respect hereunto, without Virtue and Efficacy thence alone derived, the outward Precepts and Promises of the Gospel would no more perfect the Church-state than the Law could do.
Hope therefore is used here Metonymically, to design the thing hoped for. From the giving of the first Promise, and throughout under the Dispensation of the 1Law, Christ and his coming into the VVorld were the Hope of all Believers, the ⟨p. 205⟩great thing which they desired, longed and hoped for. Hence was he called, the Desire of all Nations, Hag. 2. that which the Secret desires of the whole Race of Mankind worked towards. And in the Church, which enjoyed the Promises, they rejoyced in the fore-sight of it, as did Abraham; and desired to see its Day, as did the Prophets, diligently enquiring into the time and season of the Accomplishment of those Revelations, which they had received concerning him,