A53678:1934
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.
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 ⟨p. 264⟩of the People. And other distinct offering for himself he offered none. And therefore in sundry places where mention is made of his offering himself, it is still observed, that he did no sin, but was as a Lamb without spot and without blemish. Let therefore men put what Interpretation they please on their own words (for they are not the words of the Apostle that Christ offered himself for his own sins) the language is and must be offensive unto every Holy Heart, and hath an open appearance of express contradiction unto many other Testimonies of the Scripture.
1. If this be so, then the Apostle expresly 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, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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