A53678:1756
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.
2. Having undertaken that Office, all the Actings of it for us and towards us or towards God in our behalf, are circumscribed and limited by that Office. We have no Ground of Faith to expect any thing from him or by him, but what belongs unto the Office that he hath undertaken. Neither are we in our Addresses unto him, and expectations from him, to consider him absolutely as God, the Eternal Son of God only, but as the Mediator between God and Man. We can look for no more from a King but what he can justly do as a King, nor any other Person in Office; no more are we to look for from Christ himself.
2. Having undertaken that Office, all the Actings of it for us and towards us or towards God in our behalf, are circumscribed and limited by that Office. We have no Ground of Faith to expect any thing from him or by him, but what belongs unto the Office that he hath undertaken. Neither are we in our Addresses unto him, and expectations from him, to consider him absolutely as God, the Eternal Son of God only, but as the Mediator between God and Man. VVe can look for no more from a King but what he can justly do as a King, nor any other Person in Office; no more are we to look for from Christ himself.
3. This Office of Christ in general as the Mediator and Sponsor of the New Covenant, is distinguished into three especial Offices, of a King, a Prophet, and a Priest. Whatever therefore we receive from Christ, or by him, we do it as he acts in that threefold capacity, or in one of those Offices, a King, a Priest, or a Prophet. Whatever he hath done for us, or continueth to do, whatever he doth over us, for us, or towards us, he doth it in and under one of these capacities. For unto them may all his Office Relation unto us be reduced. And the kindness of all those other Relations wherein he stands unto us, as of a Shepherd, the Bishop of our Souls, of an Husband, of a Brother, a Friend, he puts forth and exerciseth in the Acts and Actings of these Offices.
3. This Office of Christ in general as the Mediator and Sponsor of the New Covenant, is distinguished into three especial Offices, of a King, a Prophet, and a Priest. Whatever therefore we receive from Christ, or by him, we do it as he acts in that threefold capacity, or in one of those Offices, a King, a Priest, or a Prophet. VVhatever he hath done for us, or continueth to do, whatever he doth over us, for us, or towards us, he doth it in and under one of these capacities. For unto them may all his Office Relation unto us be reduced. And the kindness of all those other Relations wherein he stands unto us, as of a Shepherd, the Bishop of our Souls, of an Husband, of a Brother, a Friend, he puts forth and exerciseth in the Acts and Actings of these Offices.