A53678:1536
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
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Obs. 2. Believers of Old who lived under the Law, did not live upon the Law, but upon the Hope of Christ, or Christ hoped for. Christ is the same (that is, unto the Church) yesterday to day and for ever. If Justification, if Salvation could be had any other way, or by any other means, then was his coming needless, and his death in vain. It was the Promise of him, and not of the Law which he had broken, which was the Relief and Salvation of Adam. This being the first thing that was proposed unto fallen man, as the only means of his Restoration, Justification and Salvation, if any thing were afterwards added unto the same purpose, it would declare this to be insufficient; which would be an impeachment of Divine wisdom and grace. On the same promise of Christ, which virtually contained and exhibited unto Believers all the Benefits of his mediation, as it was frequently renewed and variously explained, did all the Saints live under the Old Testament. And the obscurity of the Revelations of him in comparison of that by the Gospel, respected only the degrees, but not the essence of their Faith.
Obs. 2. Believers of Old who lived under the Law, did not live upon the Law, but upon the Hope of Christ, or Christ hoped for. Christ is the same (that is, unto the Church) yesterday to day and for ever. If Justification, if Salvation could be had any other way, or by any other means, then was his coming needless, and his death in vain. It was the Promise of him, and not of the Law which he had broken, which was the Relief and Salvation of Adam. This being the first thing that was proposed unto fallen man, as the only means of his Restauration, Justification and Salvation, if any thing were afterwards added unto the same purpose, it would declare this to be insufficient; which would be an impeachment of Divine wisdom and grace. On the same promise of Christ, which virtually contained and exhibited unto Believers all the Benefits of his mediation, as it was frequently renewed and variously explained, did all the Saints live under the Old Testament. And the obscurity of the Revelations of him in comparison of that by the Gospel, respected only the degrees, but not the essence of their Faith.
Obs. 3. The Lord Christ by his Priesthood and Sacrifice makes perfect the Church and all things belonging thereunto,