A53678:1968
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.
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.
2. Because after the giving of the Law and the setting up of the Levitical Priesthood thereby, God again promiseth to raise up another Priest, in another kind, after another order, after the manner of him who was called unto that office long before the giving of the Law. Wherefore he was prefigured before the Law, and promised after the Law, so that his Introduction could not be prejudiced by the Law.
3. That this High Priest thus promised, neither was to be nor could be, of the same stock, Nature, or Order with the Levitical priests, but one that was not only distinct from them, but really inconsistent with them. He manifests that there was no possibility they should be priests together, or that the Church should be under the conduct of them both.