A53678:1544
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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1. A Removal of whatever kept us at a Distance from God. And the things of this nature were of two sorts. (1.) What was upon us from God for our sin and Apostasy. This was his wrath and curse; And these were declared in the publishing ⟨p. 208⟩of the Law on mount Sinai with the terrible appearances and dreadful voices that accompanied. This made the People stand afar off; Exod. 20. 21; as an Emblem of their condition with respect unto the Law. (2) Guilt within, with its consequences of fear, shame, and Alienation from the life of God. Unless these things of the one sort and the other, those upon us and those within us, be taken away and removed, we can never draw nigh unto God. And to secure our Distance, they were enrolled in an hand-writing as a Record against us, that we should never on our own account so much as endeavour any Access unto him, Ephes. 2. 14. Col. 2. 14. How they were removed by the bringing in of the better Hope, that is, by the Priesthood of Christ, the Apostle declares in this Epistle, as we shall see God willing in our Progress. This neither was nor could be done by the Law or its Ordinances, neither the Moral preceptive part of it, nor the Ceremonial, in all its Rites and Sacrifices, could of themselves expiate sins, make Atonement for our Apostasy, turn away the wrath of God, nor take away Guilt, fear, bondage, and Alienation out of the minds of men.
1. A Removal of whatever kept us at a Distance from God. And the things of this nature were of two sorts. (1.) What was upon us from God for our sin and Apostacy. This was his wrath and curse; And these were declared in the publishing ⟨p. 208⟩of the Law on mount Sinai with the terrible appearances and dreadful voices that accompanied. This made the People stand afar off; Exod. 20. 21; as an Emblem of their condition with respect unto the Law. (2) Guilt within, with its consequences of fear, shame, and Alienation from the life of God. Unless these things of the one sort and the other, those upon us and those within us, be taken away and removed, we can never draw nigh unto God. And to secure our Distance, they were enrolled in an hand-writing as a Record against us, that we should never on our own account so much as endeavour any Access unto him,