A53678:1939
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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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.
6. This Imagination will admit of no tolerable sense in its Exposition or Application. For how can we conceive that the Lord Christ offered for his own infirmities, that is, his sorrows, sufferings, and obnoxiousness unto death? It must be by his sufferings and death; for in and by them he offered himself unto God. But this is absurd and foolish: By his suffering he offered for his sufferings. What he offered for, he took away, as he did the sins of the People. But his own sorrows and sufferings he took not away, but underwent them all.
7. It is contradictory unto the principal Maxim of the Socinians with respect unto the Priesthood of Christ. For they maintain, that his one perfect offering or Expiatory Sacrifice was in Heaven only, and not on the earth. But he could not at his Appearance in the Holy place offer for his own infirmities and miseries, for ⟨p. 265⟩they were all past and finished, himself being exalted in Immortality and Glory.