A53678:1682
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.
For whereas Adam with all the innumerable Advantages he had, that is, all helps necessary in himself, and no Opposition or Difficulty from himself to conflict withal, yet utterly brake the Covenant wherein he was Created and Placed; Believers who have little strength in themselves, and a powerful inbred opposition unto their stability, are yet secured in their station by the Interposition of the Lord Christ as their Surety.
2. When God made a Covenant with the People in the wilderness, to manifest that there could be no stability in it without respect unto a Surety, that it could not continue, no not for a day, he caused it to be dedicated or confirmed with the blood of Sacrifices. This the Apostle declares, and withal its Typicalness with respect unto the new Covenant and the confirmation of it with the blood of Christ, Chap 9. 18, 19, 20, 21. And afterwards, as we have declared, the high Priest in the Sacrifices that he offered, was the Typical Mediator and Surety of that Covenant. And the end of this Appointment of God, was to manifest, that it was from the Blood of the true Sacrifice, namely, that of Jesus Christ, that the new Covenant was to receive its stability. And we need a Surety unto this purpose,
1. Because in the state and condition of sin, we are not capable of immediate dealing or Covenanting with God. There can be no Covenanting between God and sinners, unless there be some one to stand forth in our name, to receive the Terms of God, and to undertake for us. So when God began to treat immediately from Heaven with the people of old, they all jointly professed, that such was the Greatness and Glory of God, such the Terror of his Majesty, that it was impossible for them so to treat with him; and if he spake unto them any more, they should all dye and be consumed. Wherefore with one consent they desired that there might be one appointed between God and them, to transact all things and to undertake for them as to their Obedience, which God well approved in them.