A53678:1632
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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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.
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 Ransome 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 expresly declares, Chap. 9. 18. 19.
3. The Lord Christ was indeed in his Divine Person the immediate Administrator of that Covenant, the Angel and Messenger of it on the behalf of God the Father; but this doth not constitute him a Mediator properly: For a Mediator is not of one, but God is one.
4. The Lord Christ was a Mediator under that Covenant, as to the original Promise of Grace, and the efficacy of it, which were administered therein; but he was not the Mediator and Surety of it as it was a Covenant: For had he been so, he being the same yesterday, to day, and for ever, that Covenant could have never been disannulled.
4. The Lord Christ was a Mediator under that Covenant, as to the original Promise of Grace, and the efficacy of it, which were administred therein; but he was not the Mediator and Surety of it as it was a Covenant: For had he been so, he being the same yesterday, to day, and for ever, that Covenant could have never been disanulled.