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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.
Wherefore we must take our Direction herein from the words following. For mentioning the whole Tabernacle, as he doth here one part of it, namely, the Sanctuary, he gives it a note of Distinction from the Old Tabernacle of Moses, the true Tabernacle. So must the Sanctuary be distinguished from that of Old. It is that which answers thereunto. And this is nothing but Heaven it self. Heaven not as considered absolutely, but as the Place of Gods glorious Presence, the Temple of the living God, where the worship of the Church is represented, and all its Affairs transacted. This is called Gods Sanctuary, Psal. 102. 19. He looked down from the height of his Sanctuary, from Heaven did the Lord behold the Earth. And so the Apostle himself plainly interprets this place, Chap. 9. 24. Christ is not entered into the Holy Places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into Heaven it self.
Wherefore we must take our Direction herein from the words following. For mentioning the whole Tabernacle, as he doth here one part of it, namely, the Sanctuary, he gives it a note of Distinction from the Old Tabernacle of Moses, the true Tabernacle. So must the Sanctuary be distinguished from that of Old. It is that which answers thereunto. And this is nothing but Heaven it self. Heaven not as considered absolutely, but as the Place of Gods glorious Presence, the Temple of the living God, where the worship of the Church is represented, and all its Affairs transacted. This is called Gods Sanctuary, Psal. 102. 19. He looked down from the height of his Sanctuary, from Heaven did the Lord behold the Earth. And so the Apostle himself plainly interprets this place, Chap. 9. 24. Christ is not entred into the Holy Places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into Heaven it self.
And this is called the Sanctuary, because there doth really dwell and abide all that was typically represented in the Sanctuary below. And therein doth the Lord Christ discharge his Priestly Office for the good of the Church. It was a joyful time with the Church of Old, when the High Priest entered into the Holy Place. For he carried with him the Blood wherewith Atonement was made for all their sins. Yet he was quickly