A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…

5. We must not pass by the wresting of this Text by the Socinians; nor omit its due Vindication. For they contend that this whole Description of our High Priest doth not respect his internal Qualifications in this world before and in the offering of himself by his Blood; but his glorious state and condition in Heaven. For they fear (as well they may) that if the Qualifications of a Priest were necessary to him, and required in him whilst he was in this world, that then he was so indeed. He who says such an High Priest became us as is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, doth affirm that when he was so, he was our High Priest. In that state wherein these things were necessary unto him, he was a Priest. To avoid this ruin unto their Pretensions, they offer violence unto the Text, and the signification of every word in it, and dangerously insinuate a negation of the things intended, to be in Christ in this world. So speaks Schlictingius on the place. Unde apparet sequentibus verbis, seu Epithetis Christo tributis, non mores ipsius seu vitam ab omni peccati labe puram, sed felicem ac beatum statum describi ac designari, ob quem fiat ut in aeternum vivens, nostri quoque perpetuam gerat curam. Licet enim omnia ista ratione vitae & morum de Christo intellecta verissima sint, tamen nihil ad praesens Authoris institutum faciunt. So also argues Smalcius de Reg. Christi, Cap. 23. whom we have elsewhere refuted.

5. We must not pass by the wresting of this Text by the Socinians; nor omit its due Vindication. For they contend that this whole Description of our High Priest doth not respect his internal Qualifications in this world before and in the offering of himself by his Blood; but his glorious state and condition in Heaven. For they fear (as well they may) that if the Qualifications of a Priest were necessary to him, and required in him whilst he was in this world, that then he was so indeed. He who says such an High Priest became us as is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, doth affirm that when he was so, he was our High Priest. In that state wherein these things were necessary unto him, he was a Priest. To avoid this ruine unto their Pretensions, they offer violence unto the Text, and the signification of every word in it, and dangerously insinuate a negation of the things intended, to be in Christ in this world. So speaks Schlictingius on the place. Unde apparet sequentibus verbis, seu Epithetis Christo tributis, non mores ipsius seu vitam ab omni peccati labe puram, sed felicem ac beatum statum describi ac designari, ob quem fiat ut in aeternum vivens, nostri quoque perpetuam gerat curam. Licet enim omnia ista ratione vitae & morum de Christo intellecta verissima sint, tamen nihil ad praesens Authoris institutum faciunt. So also argues Smalcius de Reg. Christi, Cap. 23. whom we have elsewhere refuted.