A53678:1881
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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1. He was not separate from them as unto community of nature. For God sent his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh; Rom. 8. 3. He sent him in the flesh, for he sent him made of a woman, made under the Law, Gal. 4. 4. wherein the word was made flesh; Joh. 1. 14. but he sent him only in the likeness of sinful flesh. And that because he made him sin, who knew no sin; 2 Cor. 5. 21. He took our flesh, that is, our nature upon him without sin, yet so as that by Reason of the charge of sin with the consequences thereof that was upon him, he was in the likeness of sinful flesh. He was not therefore really separate from sinners as they were flesh, but as they were sinful flesh. He took upon him the seed of Abraham, and because the Children were partakers of flesh and blood he himself partook also of the same. Without this Relation unto us, and Union with us, in one common nature, whereby he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified, are of one, he could not have been an High Priest or sacrifice for us. He was not therefore thus separated from sinners, as to be of another nature from them. He took not on him the nature of Angels, nor was a mere Spirit but had flesh and bones, as he declared unto his Disciples. And the same nature he hath still with him in Heaven, and in the same will appear at Judgment. It is equally destructive unto our Faith and comforts, to suppose our High Priest not separate from us in point of sin: and to be separate from us as to his nature.
1. He was not separate from them as unto community of nature. For God sent his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh; Rom. 8. 3. He sent him in the flesh, for he sent him made of a woman, made under the Law, Gal. 4. 4. wherein the word was made flesh; Joh. 1. 14. but he sent him only in the likeness of sinful flesh. And that because he made him sin, who knew no sin;