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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
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That alone which seems to be of any force against this Interpretation, is, that the Humane Nature of Christ is that wherein he is the Minister of this Tabernacle; it cannot therefore be the Tabernacle it self wherein he doth administer, and therefore the place of his abode must be intended by the Tabernacle whereof he is the Minister.
Answ. By the same Rule it would follow, That because Christ is the High Priest, he is not the Sacrifice, for the Priest and the Sacrifice among men cannot be the same. Howbeit Christ offered himself only. And the reason of these things is, that he was in his own Person and what he did therein, to answer all those Types of Priest, Sacrifice, Altar, Tabernacle, and what belonged thereunto. He was the body and substance of them all, Col. 2. 17. No one of them was able to represent the fullness of Grace that was to be in Christ. Therefore were there many of them ordained, and those of various sorts. And therefore his being eminently intended in one of them, no way hinders his being so in another. He was all in himself, Priest, Tabernacle, Altar and Sacrifice.
Answ. By the same Rule it would follow, That because Christ is the High Priest, he is not the Sacrifice, for the Priest and the Sacrifice among men cannot be the same. Howbeit Christ offered himself only. And the reason of these things is, that he was in his own Person and what he did therein, to answer all those Types of Priest, Sacrifice, Altar, Tabernacle, and what belonged thereunto. He was the body and substance of them all, Col. 2. 17. No one of them was able to represent the fulness of Grace that was to be in Christ. Therefore were there many of them ordained, and those of various sorts. And therefore his being eminently intended in one of them, no way hinders his being so in another. He was all in himself, Priest, Tabernacle, Altar and Sacrifice.