A53678:1649
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.
1. That there was to be another Covenant or Testament of God with and towards the Church, besides that which he made with Israel when he brought them out of Egypt. The Promises hereof are so frequently repeated in the Prophets especially those who prophesied towards the latter end of their Church State, that there could be no question about it, nor could they be ignorant of it.
1. That there was to be another Covenant or Testament of God with and towards the Church, besides that which he made with Israel when he brought them out of Egypt. The Promises hereof are so frequently repeated in the Prophets especially those who prophecyed towards the latter end of their Church State, that there could be no question about it, nor could they be ignorant of it.
2. That this New Covenant or Testament should be better than the former, which was to be disannulled thereby. This carried along with it, its own Evidence. For after God in his Wisdom and Goodness had made one Covenant with his People, he would not remove it, abolish it, and take it away by another, unless that other were better than it; especially declaring so often as he doth, that he granted them this New Covenant, as the highest effect of his Grace and Kindness towards them. And that indeed it was expressly promised to be a better Covenant than the former, we shall see in the next chapter, if we live and God Will.
2. That this New Covenant or Testament should be better than the former, which was to be disanulled thereby. This carried along with it, its own Evidence. For after God in his Wisdom and Goodness had made one Covenant with his People, he would not remove it, abolish it, and take it away by another, unless that other were better than it; especially declaring so often as he doth, that he granted them this New Covenant, as the highest effect of his Grace and Kindness towards them. And that indeed it was expressely promised to be a better Covenant than the former, we shall see in the next chapter, if we live and God Will.