A53678:1918
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. In the frequency of their Offerings, they were to offer daily, which also includes the order of their Offering, first for themselves, and then for the People: Whereas he offered once only.
1. In the frequency of their Offerings, they were to offer dayly, which also includes the order of their Offering, first for themselves, and then for the People: Whereas he offered once only.
2. It is supposed they offered the sacrifices appointed by the Law which were of brute Creatures only, whence their insufficiency and frequent Repetition did proceed; as declared, Chap. 10. 1, 2, 3. He offered himself.
3. In the cause of their offering; they offered for their own sins, but he had none of his own to offer for.
Now all the things here ascribed unto the Levitical priests, are weaknesses and imperfections in their Office. And hereby the main position of the Apostle, and which was destructive of the whole Fabric of Mosaical worship, namely, that the Law whereby they were constituted made nothing perfect, was abundantly confirmed. For the greatest effect of that Law was the constitution of this Priesthood. And what perfection can be expected by such a Priesthood where the Priests were obliged continually to offer for their own sins? No sooner was one offering past, but they were providing matter, making another necessary. And so it was with respect unto the sins of the People. And what perfection could be comprised in an everlasting Rotation of sins and sacrifices? Is it not manifest that this Priesthood and these sacrifices, could never of themselves expiate sin, nor make perfect them that came to God by them? Their instructive use was excellent: They both directed Faith to look unto the great future Priest and Sacrifice, and established it, in that they were Pledges given of God in Assurance thereof. The eye of them all was a continual guidance unto the Church, to look unto him who alone was to make Atonement