A53678:1610
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.
4. That from hence ariseth the principal Advantage of the New Testament above the ⟨p. 215⟩Old, as is declared in the next verse, and we may observe,
1. That although God granted great Privileges unto the Church under the Old Testament, yet still in every instance he withheld that which was the principal, and should have given perfection unto what he did grant. He made them Priests, but without an Oath. In all things there was a reserve for Christ, that he in all might have the Preeminence.
1. That although God granted great Priviledges unto the Church under the Old Testament, yet still in every instance he withheld that which was the principal, and should have given perfection unto what he did grant. He made them Priests, but without an Oath. In all things there was a reserve for Christ, that he in all might have the Preeminence.
2. God by his Oath declares the Determination if his Sovereign pleasure unto the Object of it. What he proposeth and prescribeth unto us, he declares no more of his mind and his will about, but that he requireth and approveth of our Obedience unto it, but still reserves the liberty unto himself of making those Alterations in it and about it, that seem good unto him. Nothing therefore in the whole legal Administration being confirmed by the Oath of God, it was always ready for a removal at the appointed season.
2. God by his Oath declares the Determination if his Soveraign pleasure unto the Object of it. What he proposeth and prescribeth unto us, he declares no more of his mind and his will about, but that he requireth and approveth of our Obedience unto it, but still reserves the liberty unto himself of making those Alterations in it and about it, that seem good unto him. Nothing therefore in the whole legal Administration being confirmed by the Oath of God, it was always ready for a removal at the appointed season.