A53678:1623
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.
It is owned tacitly, that the Priesthood of Levi, and the Old Testament were good, or these could not be said to be better in way of comparison. And Good they were because appointed of God, and of singular use unto the Church during their continuance. But this Priesthood and Testament are better, by so much as that which is confirmed with an Oath, is better than that which is not so, which alone gives the proportion of comparison in this place. Many other advantages there were of the Priesthood of Christ, and of the New Testament in comparison unto those of old, all which increase the proportion of Difference; but at present the Apostle considers only what depends on the Oath of God. Wherefore the Design of the Comparison contained in those words [Greek or Hebrew], is, that whereas this 1Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, was designed to be the Surety of another Testament, he was confirmed in his office by the Oath of God, which gives a Preeminence both unto his Office and the Testament whereof he was to be a Surety.
It is owned tacitely, that the Priesthood of Levi, and the Old Testament were good, or these could not be said to be better in way of comparison. And Good they were because appointed of God, and of singular use unto the Church during their continuance. But this Priesthood and Testament are better, by so much as that which is confirmed with an Oath, is better than that which is not so, which alone gives the proportion of comparison in this place. Many other advantages there were of the Priesthood of Christ, and of the New Testament in comparison unto those of old, all which encrease the proportion of Difference; but at present the Apostle considers only what depends on the Oath of God. Wherefore the Design of the Comparison contained in those words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is, that whereas this 1Priest after the Order of Melchisedec, was designed to be the Surety of another Testament, he was confirmed in his office by the Oath of God, which gives a Prcheminence both unto his Office and the Testament whereof he was to be a Surety.
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