A53678:1965
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.
The Apostle in this verse summeth up the whole of his precedent Discourse, so as to evidence the true and proper Foundation, which all along he hath built and proceeded on. (1.) One Principle there was agreed upon between him and the Hebrews who adhered unto Mosaical Institutions; and this was, that an High Priest over the Church there must be; and without such an one there is no approach unto God. So it was under the Law, and if the same order be not continued, the Church must needs fall under a great disadvantage. To lose the High Priest out of our Religion, is to lose the Sun out of the firmament of the Church. This was a common Principle agreed on between them, whereon the Apostle doth proceed.
(2.) He Grants unto them that the High Priests who officiated in the Tabernacle and the Temple were called and appointed by God unto their Office, in the Law.
(3.) Hereon ensued the main Difference between him and them. They were persuaded and hoped that these Priests should continue for ever in the Church without change or Alteration. He contends that there was a time designed wherein they were to be removed, and a Priest of another order to be introduced in their room; which would be so far from being any disadvantage unto the Church, as that the whole safety, glory, and blessedness thereof did depend thereon. And this he proves by many cogent and irrefragable Arguments unto them. As,
(3.) Hereon ensued the main Difference between him and them. They were perswaded and hoped that these Priests should continue for ever in the Church without change or Alteration. He contends that there was a time designed wherein they were to be removed, and a Priest of another order to be introduced in their room; which would be so far from being any disadvantage unto the Church, as that the whole safety, glory, and blessedness thereof did depend thereon. And this he proves by many cogent and irrefragable Arguments unto them. As,