A53678:1853
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.
Such an High Priest became us, as is Holy, Harmless, Undefiled, Separate from sinners. And,
1. There is some Allusion in all these things unto what was Typically represented in the Institution of the Office of the Priesthood under the Law. For the High Priest was to be a Person without blemish, not maimed in any part of his body. He was not to marry any one that was defiled, nor to defile himself among the People. On his forehead in his ministrations he ware a Plate of Gold with that Inscription, Holiness to the Lord. And no doubt but Personal Holiness was required of him in an especial manner; for want whereof, God cast out the Posterity of Eli from the Priesthood.
But all those things were only outward Representations of what was really required unto such an High Priest as the Church stood in need of. For they were mostly external, giving a Denomination unto the Subject, but working no real change in it. And where they were internal, they were encompassed with such a mixture of sins, weaknesses, infirmities, and the Intercision of Death, as that they had no Glory in comparison of what was required. All these things the Apostle observes, reducing them unto two Heads, namely, that they were obnoxious unto Sin and Death; and therefore as they died, so they offered sacrifices for their own sins. But the Church was taught by them from the Beginning, that it stood in need of an High Priest whose real Qualifications should answer all these Types and Representations of them.