A53678:1875
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.
[Greek or Hebrew], Holy is his Epithet with respect unto his Nature; [Greek or Hebrew], Harmless respects his Life. The first includes all positive Holiness; the other an Abnegation of all unholiness. As he was [Greek or Hebrew] he had not [Greek or Hebrew], sin present, as we have with us, Rom. 7. 18, 21. or [Greek or Hebrew], sin easily besetting, Heb. 12. 1. As he was [Greek or Hebrew], he was free from every effect of such a Principle.
〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Holy is his Epithet with respect unto his Nature; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Harmless respects his Life. The first includes all positive Holiness; the other an Abnegation of all unholiness. As he was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 he had not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, sin present, as we have with us, Rom. 7. 18, 21. or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, sin easily besetting, Heb. 12. 1. As he was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he was free from every effect of such a Principle.
And we had need of such an High Priest. Had he not been innocent and every way blameless himself, he would have had other work to do, than always to take care of our Salvation, as the Apostle observes in the next verse. He must first have offered for his own sins, as the High Priest did of old, before he had offered for us or ours. And this added unto the merit of his Obedience. For whereas he was absolutely Innocent, Harmless, and free from all evil and Guile, he was reproached and charged with every thing that is evil; A Seducer, a Blasphemer, a Seditious Person, the worst of Malefactors. For herein also, as to the suffering part, he was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might become the Righteousness of God in him. And a great encouragement this is unto those who suffer in the like kind according to their measure.