A53678:1895
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.
1. To manifest that the Levitical Priests were no way qualified for this Office, no way meet or able to bring us unto God. Something they did represent, but nothing of themselves they did effect. They all of them came short in every Qualification which was necessary unto this end. They were all sinners, and living and dying on the Earth, they never attained unto that condition of Glory and Dignity which were necessary unto the full and final discharge of that Office. So he declares his mind to have been expressly in the next verses.
1. To manifest that the Levitical Priests were no way qualifyed for this Office, no way meet or able to bring us unto God. Something they did represent, but nothing of themselves they did effect. They all of them came short in every Qualification which was necessary unto this end. They were all sinners, and living and dying on the Earth, they never attained unto that condition of Glory and Dignity which were necessary unto the full and final discharge of that Office. So he declares his mind to have been expresly in the next verses.
2. To encourage the Faith of Believers, by evidencing unto them, that whatever was needful in an high Priest, to bring them to God, and to save them to the utmost, was found in all Perfection in Christ Jesus. And we may observe, that,
1. Although these Properties of our High Priest are principally to be considered as rendering him meet to be our High Priest, yet are they also to be considered as an Exemplar and Idea of that Holiness, and Innocency which we ought to be conformable unto. If we will give up our selves to the conduct of this High Priest, if by him alone we design to approach unto God; conformity unto him in Holiness of nature and Life according unto our Measure is indispensably required of us. None can more dishonour the Lord Christ, nor more perniciously deceive and betray their own Souls, than by professing him to be their Priest, with their Trust thereby to be saved by him, and yet not endeavour to be holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, like unto him.