A53678:1537
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.
Obs. 3. The Lord Christ by his Priesthood and Sacrifice makes perfect the Church and all things belonging thereunto, Col. 2. 10.
In the last place the Apostle illustrates the work wrought through the Introduction of the better Hope, by the effect of it in them that do believe. [Greek or Hebrew]. 1By which we draw nigh unto God. [Greek or Hebrew], by which, may refer either to the remote antecedent [Greek or Hebrew] the Introduction or bringing in, or unto the next, which is [Greek or Hebrew] the Hope; being both of the same Gender. By the Introduction of the better Hope we draw nigh to God; or by which Hope we draw nigh to God. Both come to the same for the substance of the sense; but the Application is more natural to the next Antecedent, by which Hope we draw nigh unto God. It remaineth only that we enquire, what it is thus to draw nigh to God.
In the last place the Apostle illustrates the work wrought through the Introduction of the better Hope, by the effect of it in them that do believe. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. 1By which we draw nigh unto God. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, by which, may refer either to the remote antecedent 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the Introduction or bringing in, or unto the next, which is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the Hope; being both of the same Gender. By the Introduction of the better Hope we draw nigh to God; or by which Hope we draw nigh to God. Both come to the same for the substance of the sense; but the Application is more natural to the next Antecedent, by which Hope we draw nigh unto God. It remaineth only that we enquire, what it is thus to draw nigh to God.