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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.
I. A general Assertion of the Nature, Duty, and Office of every High Priest.
II. A particular Inference from thence, of what did necessarily belong unto the Lord Christ in the susception and discharge of this Office.
In the first, the Universality of the expression is to be observed. [Greek or Hebrew], Every 1High Priest. By the context this Universal is cast under a Limitation with respect unto the Law; every High Priest, that is, made or appointed by the Law; for of those alone the Apostle treateth. There was indeed never any High Priest accepted of God, but those ordained by the Law; yet was it necessary unto the Apostle, to make mention of the Law also. And although they were many of them, yet were they all of the same order and Office, and so were all alike authorized and obliged unto the same Duties. Wherefore the Apostle thus expresseth it by every High Priest, to evidence that there lay no exception against his argument, seeing that in the whole multitude of High Priests in their succession from first to last, there was no one but he was appointed unto this end, and had this Duty incumbent on him. Yea it is not one especial Duty of their Office that ⟨p. 195⟩might be omitted, which he insisteth on, but the general end for which they were ordained; as he expresseth it in the next word.
In the first, the Universality of the expression is to be observed. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Every