A53678:2037
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.
II. The second Part of it in the following words, contains the first general Preeminence of our High Priest, and that taken from his present and eternal state or condition.
II. The second Part of it in the following words, contains the first general Preheminence of our High Priest, and that taken from his present and eternal state or condition.
And there are three things considerable in the words. (1.) Our Relation unto this High Priest. (2.) The general Denotation of him. (3.) His Eminency and Dignity in particular above all others.
I. Our Relation unto him is expressed in the word [Greek or Hebrew], We have. For the Apostle, together with his Assertion of the Priesthood of Christ, and the Declaration of the 1Nature of it, doth frequently intersert the mention of our Interest therein, or our Relation unto him in the Discharge of that Office; Such an High Priest became us, Chap. 7. 26. We have not an High Priest that cannot, &c. Chap. 4. 15. The High Priest of our Profession, Chap. 3. 1. And here, we have such un High Priest. And to the same purpose we have an Altar, Chap. 13. 10. And two things the Apostle seems to design herein.
I. Our Relation unto him is expressed in the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, We have. For the Apostle, together with his Assertion of the Priesthood of Christ, and the Declaration of the 1Nature of it, doth frequently intersert the mention of our Interest therein, or our Relation unto him in the Discharge of that Office; Such an High Priest became us, Chap. 7. 26. We have not an High Priest that cannot, &c. Chap. 4. 15. The High Priest of our Profession, Chap. 3. 1. And here, we have such un High Priest. And to the same purpose we have an Altar, Chap. 13. 10. And two things the Apostle seems to design herein.