A53678:1966
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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(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,
1. That before the erection of the Levitical Priesthood by the Law, there was another priest of the High God, who was far greater and more excellent than those Priests, yea, than Abraham himself from whom they derived all their Privileges.
1. That before the erection of the Levitical Priesthood by the Law, there was another priest of the High God, who was far greater and more excellent than those Priests, yea, than Abraham himself from whom they derived all their Priviledges.