A53678:1735
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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That which they generally fix upon is, that their Priests have not another Priesthood or offer another Sacrifice, but are Partakers of his Priesthood and minister under him, and so are not his Successors but his Vicars: which I think is the worst composure of this difficulty they could have thought upon. For,
1. This is directly contrary unto the words and design of the Apostle. For the Reason he assigns why the Priesthood of Christ doth not pass from him unto any other, is because he abides himself for ever to discharge the Office of it. Now this excludes all subordination and conjunction; all Vicars as well as Successors, unless we shall suppose that although he doth thus abide, yet is he one way or other disabled to discharge his Office.
1. This is directly contrary unto the words and design of the Apostle. For the Reason he assigns why the Priesthood of Christ doth not passe from him unto any other, is because he abides himself for ever to discharge the Office of it. Now this excludes all subordination and conjunction; all Vicars as well as Successors, unless we shall suppose that although he doth thus abide, yet is he one way or other disabled to discharge his Office.
2. The Successors of Aaron had no more another Priesthood but what he had, than it is pretended that the Roman Priests have no other Priesthood but what Christ had. Nor did they offer any other Sacrifice than what he offered, as these Priests pretend to offer the same Sacrifice that Christ did. So that still the case is the same between Aaron and his Successors, and Christ and his Substitutes.