A53678:1938
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.
4. When those priests offered for their own sins, their sins were of the same nature with the sins of the People. If the Priest that is anointed, shall sin after the manner of the People, Levit. 4. 3. If therefore this be to be repeated [Greek or Hebrew], this he did when he offered for his own sins and of the People, sins being only expressed in the first place and understood in the later, sins properly so called must be intended, which is the height of Blasphemy.
4. When those priests offered for their own sins, their sins were of the same nature with the sins of the People. If the Priest that is anointed, shall sin after the manner of the People, Levit. 4. 3. If therefore this be to be repeated 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, this he did when he offered for his own sins and of the People, sins being only expressed in the first place and understood in the later, sins properly so called must be intended, which is the height of Blasphemy.
5. If the Lord Christ offered for himself or his own Infirmities, then those Infirmities were such as were Obstructions and hinderances unto his offering for others; for that is the only Reason why he should offer for their removal or taking away. But this is so far otherwise as that indeed he was obnoxious unto no Infirmity, but what was necessary that he might be a meet High Priest and Sacrifice for us. For so was every thing that is inseparable from humane nature; which is utterly destructive of this Figment.