A53678:1751
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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Considerations of the Person and Offices of Christ ought to be improved unto the strengthening of the Faith, and increase of the Consolation of the Church. So they are here by the Apostle. After the great and ample Declaration that he hath made of the Excellency of his Priestly Office with respect unto his Person, he applies all that he hath spoken unto the encouragement of the Faith and Hope of them that endeavour to go to God by him. And all those who explode such considerations and such improvements of them, are no otherwise to be looked on but as persons utterly ignorant both of Christ and Faith in him.
Considerations of the Person and Offices of Christ ought to be improved unto the strengthening of the Faith, and encrease of the Consolation of the Church. So they are here by the Apostle. After the great and ample Declaration that he hath made of the Excellency of his Priestly Office with respect unto his Person, he applies all that he hath spoken unto the incouragement of the Faith and Hope of them that endeavour to go to God by him. And all those who explode such considerations and such improvements of them, are no otherwise to be looked on but as persons utterly ignorant both of Christ and Faith in him.
2. That which is inferred to be in this Priest, is Power and Ability. [Greek or Hebrew]. He is able; He can. This is the second time the Apostle ascribeth Power or Ability 1unto this Priest; see Chap. 2. ver. 18. and the Exposition thereof. And it is, not an Ability of nature, but of Office that is intended. An Ability of nature in Christ he had proved sufficiently in the first Chapter of the Epistle, and that accompanied with Supreme Power or Authority over all; But whereas, as our Mediator, he hath undertaken such Offices for us, he is, as such, able to do no more, than he is so by virtue of them or in the discharge of those Offices. If therefore there be any thing needful for us, which although it may be supposed within the compass of the Divine Power of the Son of God, is yet not to be effected in a way of Office, that as our Mediator he, is not able for. Hence doth our Apostle press his Ability not