A53678:1933
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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But contrary unto the sense of the whole Church of God, contrary to the Analogy of Faith, and with no small Danger in the expression, Socinus first affirmed that the Lord Christ offered also for himself or his own sins. And he is followed herein by those of his own Sect, as Schlinctingius on this Place, and so he is also by Grotius and Hammond, which is the Chanel whereby many of his Notions and Conceptions are derived unto us. It is true, that both he and they do acknowledge, that the Lord Christ had no sins of his own properly so called; that is, Transgressions of the Law; but his Infirmities, say some of them, whereby he was exposed unto Death, his sufferings, say others, are called his sins.
But contrary unto the sense of the whole Church of God, contrary to the Analogie of Faith, and with no small Danger in the expression, Socinus first affirmed that the Lord Christ offered also for himself or his own sins. And he is followed herein by those of his own Sect, as Schlinctingius on this Place, and so he is also by Grotius and Hammond, which is the Chanel whereby many of his Notions and Conceptions are derived unto us. It is true, that both he and they do acknowledge, that the Lord Christ had no sins of his own properly so called; that is, Transgressions of the Law; but his Infirmities, say some of them, whereby he was exposed unto Death, his sufferings, say others, are called his sins.
But nothing can be more abhorrent from Truth and Piety than this Assertion. For,
1. If this be so, then the Apostle expressly in terms affirms that Christ offered for his own sins, and that distinctly from the sins of the People. And from this Blasphemy we are left to relieve our selves by an Interpretation that the Scripture no where gives countenance unto; namely, that by sins, infirmities or miseries are intended. It is true that Infirmity, [Greek or Hebrew], doth sometimes signify sin, or obnoxiousness unto sin, but sin doth no where signify natural infirmities but moral evils always. It is true Christ was made sin, but where it is said so, it is also added, that it was for us; and to take off all Apprehensions of any thing in him that might be so called, that he knew no sin. He was made sin for us, when he offered for the sins