A53678:1862
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.
Three things seem to be aimed at in this Exposition.
Three things seem to be aymed at in this Exposition.
1. To make way for another corrupt notion on the next verse, wherein these men with Grotius would have Christ in some sense offer for his own sins also; which there can be no pretence for, if these things be ascribed unto him, as he was a Priest in this world.
1. To make way for another corrupt notion on the next verse, wherein these men with Grotius would have Christ in some sense offer for his own sins also; which there can be no pretence for, if these things be asscribed unto him, as he was a Priest in this world.
2. To take care that the Innocency, Holiness and absolute Purity of our High Priest be not supposed to be necessary unto our Justification, neither as the material, nor formal cause of it. For if the Lord Christ in the Sacrifice of himself died for our Justification, and that he might do so, it was necessary that he should antecedently be holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners; then was his being so necessary unto our Justification, as a cause thereof.
2. To take care that the Innocency, Holinesse and absolute Purity of our High Priest be not supposed to be necessary unto our Justification, neither as the material, nor formal cause of it. For if the Lord Christ in the Sacrifice of himself died for our Justification, and that he might do so, it was necessary that he should antecedently be holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners; then was his being so necessary unto our Justification, as a cause thereof.