A53678:1864
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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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.
3. To obviate an Apprehension of his being an High Priest before his death, and to have offered his one Sacrifice therein. For if he had not the Qualifications necessary unto an High Priest, before his Ascension into Heaven, he could not be so before. But these things are none of them compliant with the Truth. And,
1. This Exposition is contrary to the concurrent sense of all sober, ancient and modern Expositors. And which is more, it is contrary to the common sense of all Christians. Not one of them who knoweth ought of these things, unless their ⟨p. 255⟩minds are perverted with these mens glosses, and that merely to comply with other opinions wherein the text is no way concerned, but that in their first and last consideration of these words, they respect Jesus Christ as to his personal Holiness in this World. And that Exposition had need be well confirmed, which is not only contrary to the Judgement of all learned men, but also destructive of the common Faith of Christians. But as yet we have nothing beyond crude Assertions offered in the proof of it.