A53678:1799
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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3. The Lord Christ lives a Mediatory Life in Heaven, a Life for us. So saith our Apostle, he was made a Priest after the Power of an endless Life; whereof we have treated before. He lives as King, Prophet and Priest of the Church. So he describes himself, Revel. 1. 18. I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore, and have the keys of Hell and Death. As he died for us, so he liveth for us, and is entrusted with all Power over the Churches adversaries, for its good. As he died for us, so he liveth for us in Heaven; and therefore tells us, that because he liveth we shall live also, Joh. 14. 19. Now this life differeth not essentially from that life of Glory in the Humane Nature which he liveth for himself in Heaven: Only it denoteth one especial end of it, and that only for a season. The Lord Christ will have the life in himself, the divine life unto all Eternity; and so also will be the Life of Glory in the Humane Nature. But he shall cease to live this Mediatory Life for us, when the work of his Mediation is accomplished, 1 Cor. 15. 28. But he shall lead this life always for us, until the whole work committed unto him be accomplished, and shall lead it as a Life of Glory in himself unto Eternity.
3. The Lord Christ lives a Mediatory Life in Heaven, a Life for us. So saith our Apostle, he was made a Priest after the Power of an endless Life; whereof we have treated before. He lives as King, Prophet and Priest of the Church. So he describes himself, Revel. 1. 18. I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore, and have the keys of Hell and Death. As he died for us, so he liveth for us, and is entrusted with all Power over the Churches adversaries, for its good. As he died for us, so he liveth for us in Heaven; and therefore tells us, that because he liveth we shall live also, Joh. 14. 19. Now this life differeth not essentially from that life of Glory in the Humane Nature which he liveth for himself in Heaven: Only it denoteth one especial end of it, and that only for a season. The Lord Christ will have the life in himself, the divine life unto all Eternity; and so also will be the Life of Glory in the Humane Nature. But he shall cease to live this Mediatory Life for us, when the work of his Mediation is accomplished,