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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. 21.
In the Application of this assertion the Apostle affirms, that those Priests, the 1Priests under the Law, were made without an Oath. No such thing is mentioned in all that is recorded concerning their Call and Consecration. For where they are expressly declared in their outward circumstances, Exod. 28, 29. there is mention made of no such thing. But their dedication consisted in three things.
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1. A Call from God expressed, chap. 28. ver. 1. We have showed how necessary 1this was unto the first erection of any Priesthood, though it was to be continued by an ordinary succession. See chap. 5, 4. It is therefore granted that in this general Foundation of the Office, Aaron had it, even as Christ had, though not in the same way or manner. For the Call of Christ was far more eminent and glorious than that of Aaron; as hath been showed.
1. A Call from God expressed, chap. 28. ver. 1. VVe have shewed how necessary 1this was unto the first erection of any Priesthood, though it was to be continued by an ordinary succession. See chap. 5, 4. It is therefore granted that in this general Foundation of the Office, Aaron had it, even as Christ had, though not in the same way or manner. For the Call of Christ was far more eminent and glorious than that of Aaron; as hath been shewed.