A53678:1996
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.
3. The third Difference is, that the Law made [Greek or Hebrew], Men to be High Priests; 1that is, those who were mere men and no more. And therefore notwithstanding the Office and Dignity which they were called and exalted unto, they were all but servants in the House of God, nor could they be any other as the Apostle proves, Chap. 3. 5. In opposition hereunto, the Word of the Oath makes [Greek or Hebrew], the Son an High Priest; that Son who is Lord over the whole House, and whose the House is, 2as he declares in the same place, ver. 5, 6. And in this word the Apostle openeth the necessity and Dignity of the Priesthood of the New Testament. For it consists in the Dignity of the Person designed unto that Office. This was no other, nor could be other, but the Son, the Eternal Son of God. Filium, nempe Dei, non hominem caeteris parem, nascendi sort, saith Grotius; as though Christ were here called the Son, that is the Son of God, because he was differenced from other Men, in the way and manner of his birth, being born of a Virgin. But this is not the true and formal Reason of this Denomination. Christ is the Son of God by Eternal Generation, and thereon alone doth his Sonship depend. But many ways there were, whereby he was manifested so to be, especially by his miraculous Conception and Nativity, and by his Resurrection from the Dead. Hence with respect unto them he is sometimes called the Son of God; not that he became so thereby, but was only declared so to be. This therefore the Apostle resolves the force of his Argument into, namely, the Dignity of the Person of our High Priest, he was the Son of God; for hereon the whole excellency and efficacy of his Priesthood doth depend.
3. The third Difference is, that the Law made 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Men to be High Priests; 1that is, those who were meer men and no more. And therefore notwithstanding the Office and Dignity which they were called and exalted unto, they were all but servants in the House of God, nor could they be any other as the Apostle proves, Chap. 3. 5. In opposition hereunto, the Word of the Oath makes 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Son an High Priest; that Son who is Lord over the whole House, and whose the House is,