A53678:1769
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 the Lord Christ as Mediator, and in the Discharge of his Office, is the wisdom of God and the Power of God. So saith our Apostle; Christ crucified is to them that believe the Power of God and the wisdom of God, 1 Cor. 1. 23, 24. His death is both an effect of divine Power and Wisdom, and thereby do they exert their efficacy unto the utmost, for the attaining of the end designed in it. Wherefore we are to look unto this Priesthood of Christ, as that which divine wisdom hath appointed as the only way and means whereby we may be saved. And if there be any ⟨p. 238⟩defect therein, if Christ in the discharge of it, be not able to save us notwithstanding the Difficulties which unto us seem insuperable, it must be charged on divine wisdom, as that which was wanting in the contrivance of a due means unto its end. And so it is done by the world. For the Apostle testifieth that this wisdom of God is looked on and esteemed by men as mere foolishness. The way proposed in it to save sinners by the Cross of Christ, is accounted as folly by all unbelievers, whatever else they pretend as the Reason of their unbelief. But this Faith is to fix upon; namely, that although we yet see not how it may be done, nor have the experience of it in our own souls, yet this being the way which infinite wisdom hath fixed on, there is no defect in it, but Christ by it is able to save us. For the very first notion which we have of wisdom as Divine and Infinite, is, that we are to acquiesce in its Contrivances and Determinations, though we cannot comprehend the Reasons or ways of them. Besides, the Lord Christ is herein also the Power of God. God in him and by him put forth his omnipotent Power for the accomplishing of the effect and end aimed at. Wherefore although we are not to look for our salvation from the Power of God, absolutely considered; yet are we to look for it from the same omnipotency, as acting it self in and by Jesus Christ. This is the way whereby infinite wisdom hath chosen to act omnipotent Power. And into them is Faith herein to be resolved.
That the Lord Christas Mediator, and in the Discharge of his Office, is the wisedom of God and the Power of God. So saith our Apostle; Christ crucified is to them that believe the Power of God and the wisdom of God, 1 Cor. 1. 23, 24