A53678:1998
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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But wherefore did the Law make such Priests, men, mere men, that had infirmity, subject to sin and death, so as to put an end unto their Office? The Reason is, because it could neither find any better, nor make them any better whom it found in that condition. The Law must be content with such as were to be had, and in it self it had no power to make them better.
But wherefore did the Law make such Priests, men, meer men, that had infirmity, subject to sin and death, so as to put an end unto their Office? The Reason is, because it could neither find any better, nor make them any better whom it found in that condition. The Law must be content with such as were to be had, and in it self it had no power to make them better.
In opposition hereunto it is said the Word of the Oath made the Son [Greek or Hebrew], consecrated for ever. What was the consecration of the Lord Christ unto 1his Office and wherein it did consist, I have before at large declared. That which the Apostle intends here, in an especial manner, is his absolute freedom from the infirmities which those other Priests were obnoxious unto, namely, such Infirmities in the first place as with respect whereunto, sacrifice was to be offered unto God, that is, their own sins. And the Apostle here opposing the Consecration of Christ, unto their having Infirmities, showeth sufficiently that he intended not to insinuate that he offered for any infirmities of his own, seeing he is wholly different from them and opposed unto them who had such infirmities. And if he had offered for his own infirmities, the Apostle could not have objected it as the weakness of the Law; that it made Priests which had infirmity; for in that sense, the Word of the Oath should have done so also. But whereas his Exaltation into Heaven for the discharge of the remaining Duties of his Priesthood in his Intercession for the Church, belonged unto the perfection of his Consecration, he was therein also freed from all those natural Infirmities which were necessary unto him that he might be a sacrifice. The ensuing Observations offer themselves unto us.