A53678:1683
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. 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. Deut. 5. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. Adam indeed in the state of innocency could treat immediately with God, as unto that Covenant wherein he was placed. For notwithstanding his infinite distance from God, yet God had made him for converse with himself, and did not despise the work of his own hands. But immediately upon the entrance of sin he was sensible of the loss of that Privilege, whereon he both fled and hid himself from the Presence of God. And hence those who of Old thought they had seen God, concluded that they should dye, as being sensible of their incapacity to treat immediately with him. So when the Prophet cried out that he was undone or cut off, because of the immediate Presence of God, his Eyes having seen the King the Lord of Hosts;