A53678:1990
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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3. The Promise had an absolute priority above the Law. There was no Ground or Foundation laid for the Law, no intimation of its future introduction, before the giving of the Promise: And therefore the Promise could not be disannulled by it.
But in the present case all things are otherwise. For,
1. The Priesthood confirmed by an Oath, and introduced after the Law, was utterly inconsistent with the Law and the Priesthood thereof. This the Apostle hath fully proved before. Wherefore of necessity either the Law and the Priesthood of it must be disannulled, or the Oath of God must be of none effect; For what he had sworn unto was inconsistent with the continuance of what was before appointed for a time.
2. This new Priesthood could no way be made subordinate or subservient unto the other, so as to leave it a place in the Church. But as it was eminently above it in Dignity and Benefit; so the use of the other was only to be an Introduction unto it, and therefore must cease thereon.