A53678:1630
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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1. Some would have our Lord Jesus Christ to be the Surety of that Testament also. For so our Apostle affirms in general, There is one God, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all to be Testified in due time; 1 Tim. 2. 5, 6. Be the Covenant or Testament what or which it will, there is but one Mediator between God and Man. Hence our Apostle says of him, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to day, and for ever, Chap. 13. 8. If therefore he be the only Mediator to day under the New Testament, he was so also yesterday under the Old.
1. Some would have our Lord Jesus Christ to be the Surety of that Testament also. For so our Apostle affirms in general, There is one God, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransome for all to be Testified in due time; 1 Tim. 2. 5, 6. Be the Covenant or Testament what or which it will, there is but one Mediator between God and Man. Hence our Apostle says of him, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to day, and for ever, Chap. 13. 8. If therefore he be the only Mediator to day under the New Testament, he was so also yesterday under the Old.
Answ. 1. There is some difference between a Mediator at large, and such a Mediator as is withal a Surety. And however on any Account Christ may be said to be the Mediator of that Covenant, he cannot be said to be the Surety of it.
2. The place in Timothy cannot intend the Old Covenant but is exclusive of it. For the Lord Christ is there called a Mediator with respect unto the Ransom that he paid in his death and bloodshedding. This respected not the confirmation of the Old Covenant, but was the Abolition of it; and the Old was confirmed with the Blood of Beasts, as the Apostle expressly declares, Chap. 9. 18. 19.