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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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2. He hath the Ministration of all these holy things committed unto him. He is the Minister both of the Sanctuary and Tabernacle, and of all things contained in them. Herein he stands in no need of help or assistance, nor can any take his work out of his hand.
3. The Humane Nature of Christ is the only true Tabernacle wherein God would dwell personally and substantially. The dwelling of God with men, was ever looked on as an infinite condescension. So Solomon expressed it in his Prayer at the dedication of the Temple, But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, 1 Kings 8. 27. But there are various degrees of this condescension, various kinds of this inhabitation of God among men. Under the Old Testament, he dwelt in the Tabernacle and Temple, by many symbols and pledges of his glorious presence. Such in especial was the Ark and Mercy-seat; whence that which was done before the Ark, is said to be done before the Lord, Exod. 30. 5, 8. This was as Solomon expresseth it, a great condescension in the infinite, incomprehensible God, and there was a great Glory accompanying this his presence. Under the New Testament God dwelleth in his Saints by his Spirit, whereby they become an holy Temple unto him. And of this inhabitation of God, I have treated elsewhere. But his dwelling in the Humane Nature of Christ is quite of another nature than either of these, and his love with his condescension, inconceivably more conspicuous than in them.
3. The Humane Nature of Christ is the onely true Tabernacle wherein God would dwell personally and substantially. The dwelling of God with men, was ever looked on as an infinite condescension. So Solomon expressed it in his Prayer at the dedication of the Temple, But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee,