A53678:1873
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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It is therefore the holy purity of the nature of Christ that is intended in this expression. His Life and Actions are expressed in the ensuing Epithets. His nature was pure and holy, absolutely free from any spot or taint of our original Defilement. ⟨p. 256⟩Hence as he was conceived in the Womb, and as he came from the Womb, he was that [Greek or Hebrew], holy thing of God; Luke 1. 35. All others since the fall have a polluted nature and are originally unholy. But his conception being miraculous, by the immediate operation of the Holy Ghost, and his nature not derived unto him by natural Generation, the only means of the Propagation of original Defilement, and in the first instant of its being, filled with all habitual seeds of Grace; He was [Greek or Hebrew], Holy. And such an High Priest became us, as was so. Had he had a nature touched with sin, he had not been meet either to be a Priest or Sacrifice. This Holiness of nature was needful unto him, who was to answer for the unholiness of our nature, and to take it away. Unholy Sinners, do stand in need of an Holy Priest and an Holy Sacrifice. What we have not in our selves we must have in him, or we shall not be accepted with the Holy God, who is of purer eyes than to behold Iniquity.
It is therefore the holy purity of the nature of Christ that is intended in this expression. His Life and Actions are expressed in the ensuing Epithets. His nature was pure and holy, absolutly free from any spot or taint of our original Defilement. ⟨p. 256⟩Hence as he was conceived in the Womb, and as he came from the Womb, he was that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, holy thing of God; Luke 1. 35. All others since the fall have a polluted nature and are originally unholy. But his conception being miraculous, by the immediate operation of the Holy Ghost, and his nature not derived unto him by natural Generation, the only means of the Propagation of original Defilement, and in the first instant of its being, filled with all habitual seeds of Grace; He was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Holy. And such an High Priest became us, as was so. Had he had a nature touched with sin, he had not been meet either to be a Priest or Sacrifice. This Holiness of nature was needful unto him, who was to answer for the unholiness of our nature, and to take it away. Unholy Sinners, do stand in need of an Holy Priest and an Holy Sacrifice. What we have not in our selves we must have in him, or we shall not be accepted with the Holy God, who is of purer eyes than to behold Iniquity.