A53678:1978
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. The first Difference is in the constituting Principles of these distinct Offices: That on the part of the Levitical Priesthood was [Greek or Hebrew] the Law, that is, the 1ceremonial Law, as we call it; the Law given in Horeb, concerning Religious Rites, the way and manner of the Solemn worship of God in the Tabernacle. It was not the Moral Law, not immediately the commands of the Decalogue, but the especial Law of divine Service and Worship that is intended.
1. The first Difference is in the constituting Principles of these distinct Offices: That on the part of the Levitical Priesthood was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the Law, that is, the 1ceremonial Law, as we call it; the Law given in Horeb, concerning Religious Rites, the way and manner of the Solemn worship of God in the Tabernacle. It was not the Moral Law, not immediatly the commands of the Decalogue, but the especial Law of divine Service and Worship that is intended.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew],〈non-Latin alphabet〉,
And what doth the Law do? [Greek or Hebrew], It appointeth. It did so Morally, God 1appointed them in and by the Law. And he speaks in the Present Tense. So long as the Law continueth in force and Efficacy it appointeth such Priests. None other are to be looked for in, or expected from the Law. Now a Moral Rule or Institution is sufficient to convey power and Authority of office unto men. So is it under the New Testament. It is the Gospel that makes Ministers, and not the People or any others, who have no power but only to act in Obedience unto the Laws thereof. Hereby those other Priests came so to be.