A53678:1947
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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3. Not the contrary unto these Infirmities, but the contrary unto sin Original and Actual, is intended by Holiness and Innocency in the verse foregoing, as hath been proved in the Exposition of that verse, whereunto the Reader is referred.
4. The Lord Christ offered up prayers and supplications unto God, when he offered himself: not to expiate his own infirmities by his offering, but that he might be carried through and supported in his Oblation which he offered for the sins of the People; and had success therein. See the exposition on chap. 5. 7.
5. He is more kind than ordinary in extending the Oblation of Christ unto his death also. But he recalls his grant, affirming that he did only prepare himself for his offering thereby. And this also casts his whole Exposition into much confusion. Christ offered himself once, saith the Apostle; [Greek or Hebrew], once, and at one time. This I suppose is agreed. Then he offered for himself and his own sins, or not at all. For he offered but once, and at one time; Where then did he thus offer himself and when? In Heaven upon his Ascension, say the Socinians with one accord. Where then and when did he offer for himself? On the earth. Then he offered himself twice? No, by no means, he offered not himself on the Earth; how then did he offer for himself on the earth? He did not indeed offer himself on the Earth, but he prepared himself for his offering on the Earth, and therein he offered for himself; that is, he did, and he did not offer himself upon the earth. For they cannot evade by saying that he did it when he offered up prayers on the Earth: For the Apostle says expressly in this place, that what he did, he did it when he offered himself. And it must be by such an offering as answered the offering of the high Priest for himself, which was bloody.