A53678:1979
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.
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.
And what doth the Law do? 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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.
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Hereunto is opposed [Greek or Hebrew], the word of the Oath, as the constituting cause of this new Priest and Priesthood. Thus much it had in common with 1the other way. It was a word as that was also. The Law was [Greek or Hebrew], The word spoken by Angels. chap. 2. 2. The word of God, though spoken by them. And a word in this sense is either a mere word of command, or a word of Promise; either of which is sufficient to constitute an office, being Declarations of the Authority of God himself. By this Word was both the Office of the Priesthood of Christ consecrated, and himself called to be a Priest. See the Exposition on chap. 5. ver. 5, 6. But herein especially did this Word excel the Word of the Law, in that it was confirmed by the Oath of God. It was the Word, the Will, the Promise of God declared in and by his Oath. And herein hath it many Advantages above the Law, which was not so. As,