A53678:1597
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.
This is the Account the Apostle gives of the Aaronical Priests, [Greek or Hebrew] and they 1truly, that is, Aaron and all his Posterity that exercised the Priests Office in a due manner, they were all made Priests, that is, by God himself. They did not originally take this Honour unto themselves, but were called of God. For he hath no regard unto them who in those days invaded the Priests Office with violence, deceit, or bribery, and so not only corrupting but evacuating the Covenant of Levi. Those that entered into and executed their Office according to the Law, are here intended by him. These were all made Priests in the way of Gods appointment; but neither all of them nor any of them were made Priests by an Oath. God, into whose Sovereign Will and Pleasure all these things are resolved, granted unto them what he saw convenient, and withheld what seemed good unto him; what he did was sufficient to oblige the People unto Obedience during that Dispensation of his Will: and what he did not add, but reserved for a further dispensation of His Grace, intimated that liberty which he reserved unto himself of making an Alteration therein, as he saw Good. And we may see, That
This is the Account the Apostle gives of the Aaronical Priests, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and they 1truly, that is, Aaron and all his Posterity that exercised the Priests Office in a due manner, they were all made Priests, that is, by God himself. They did not originally take this Honour unto themselves, but were called of God. For he hath no regard unto them who in those days invaded the Priests Office with violence, deceit, or bribery, and so not only corrupting but evacuating the Covenant of Levi. Those that entred into and executed their Office according to the Law, are here intended by him. These were all made Priests in the way of Gods appointment; but neither all of them nor any of them were made Priests by an Oath. God, into whose Soveraign Will and Pleasure all these things are resolved, granted unto them what he saw convenient, and withheld what seemed good unto him; what he did was sufficient to oblige the People unto Obedience during that Dispensation of his Will: and what he did not adde, but reserved for a further dispensation of His Grace, intimated that liberty which he reserved unto himself of making an Alteration therein, as he saw Good. And we may see, That