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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
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The Person swearing is God the Father, who speaks unto the Son in the Psalm 110. 1. The Lord said unto my Lord: and the Oath of God is nothing but the solemn Eternal Unchangeable Decree and Purpose of his Will, under an especial way of Declaration. So the same Act and Counsel of Gods Will is called his Decree, Ps. 2. 7. Wherefore when God will so far unveil a Decree and Purpose, as to testify it to be absolute, and unchangeable, he doth it in the way of an Oath, as hath been declared, Chap. 6. ver. 13, 14. Or to the same purpose God affirms that he hath sworn in the case.
The Person swearing is God the Father, who speaks unto the Son in the Psalm 110. 1. The Lord said unto my Lord: and the Oath of God is nothing but the solemn Eternal Unchangeable Decree and Purpose of his Will, under an especial way of Declaration. So the same Act and Counsel of Gods Will is called his Decree, Ps. 2. 7. Wherefore when God will so far unveil a Decree and Purpose, as to testifie it to be absolute, and unchangeable, he doth it in the way of an Oath, as hath been declared, Chap. 6. ver. 13, 14. Or to the same purpose God affirms that he hath sworn in the case.
If then it be demanded, When God thus sware unto Christ? I answer, we must consider the Decree it self unto this purpose, and the peculiar Revelation or Declaration of it, in which two this Oath doth consist. And as to the first, it belongs entirely unto those eternal federal Transactions between the Father and the Son, which were the original of the Priesthood of Christ, which I have at large explained in our Exercitations. And as for the latter, it was when he gave out that Revelation of his mind, in the Force and Efficacy of an Oath in the Psalm by David.
If then it be demanded, When God thus sware unto Christ? I answer, we must consider the Decree it self unto this purpose, and the peculiar Revelation or Declaration of it, in which two this Oath doth consist. And as to the first, it belongs entirely unto those eternal foederal Transactions between the Father and the Son, which were the original of the Priesthood of Christ, which I have at large explained in our Exercitations. And as for the latter, it was when he gave out that Revelation of his mind, in the Force and Efficacy of an Oath in the Psalm by David.