A53678:1885
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 appeareth hence plainly wherein it was that he was separate from sinners; namely, in Sin, in its Nature, causes and effects. Whatever of that sort he underwent was upon our Account and not his own. He was every way, in the perfect Holiness of his Nature and his Life, distinguished from all sinners; not only from the greatest, but from those who ever had the least taint of Sin, and who otherwise were most Holy. And so it became us that he should be. He that was to be a middle Person between God and Sinners, was to be separate from those sinners, in that thing, on the Account whereof he undertook to stand in their stead.
And these are the Properties of the Humane Nature of our High Priest, and which were necessary antecedently unto the discharge of any Part or Duty of his Office.
His present state and condition is in the next place expressed; and made higher than the Heavens.