A53678:1801
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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But herein lieth the Life of the Churches Consolation, that he continues to live a Mediatory Life in Heaven for us also. It is not I fear so considered, nor so improved as it ought to be. That Christ dyed for us, all who own the Gospel profess in words: though some so explain their Faith or rather their Infidelity as to deny its proper use, and to evacuate its proper ends. That so he lived for us here in this world, so as that his Life was some way or other unto our Advantage, at least thus far that he could not have died if he had not lived before, all men will grant, even those by whom the principal end of this Life, namely, to fulfil the Law for us, is peremptorily denied. But that Christ now lives a life of Glory in Heaven, that most men think is for himself alone. But the Text speaks to the contrary. He lives for ever to make Intercession for us. Neither is this the only end of his present Mediatory Life in Heaven, though this only be here expressed. Should I undertake to show the ends of the present Mediatory Life of Christ for the Church, it would be too great and long a decursion from the Text. However the whole of the work of this Life of his may be reduced into these three heads.
But herein lyeth the Life of the Churches Consolation, that he continues to live a Mediatory Life in Heaven for us also. It is not I fear so considered, nor so improved as it ought to be. That Christ dyed for us, all who own the Gospel profess in words: though some so explain their Faith or rather their Infidelity as to deny its proper use, and to evacuate its proper ends. That so he lived for us here in this world, so as that his Life was some way or other unto our Advantage, at least thus far that he could not have died if he had not lived before, all men will grant, even those by whom the principal end of this Life, namely, to fulfil the Law for us, is peremptorily denyed. But that Christ now lives a life of Glory in Heaven, that most men think is for himself alone. But the Text speaks to the contrary. He lives for ever to make Intercession for us. Neither is this the only end of his present Mediatory Life in Heaven, though this only be here expressed. Should I undertake to shew the ends of the present Mediatory Life of Christ for the Church, it would be too great and long a decursion from the Text. However the whole of the work of this Life of his may be reduced into these three heads.