A53678:2160
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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Having fully manifested these things, unfolding the mystery of them, he proceeds in this Verse to show how necessary it was that so it should be, namely that he should neither offer the things appointed in the Law, nor yet abide in the state and condition of a Priest here on earth, as those other Priests did. In brief he proves that he was not in any thing to take on him the Administration of holy things in the Church, according as they were then established by Law. For whereas it might be objected, If the Lord Christ was an High Priest as he pleaded, why then did he not administer the holy things of the Church according to the duty of a Priest? To which he replies, That so he was not to do; yea a supposition that he might do so, was inconsistent with his Office, and destructive both of the Law and the Gospel. For it would utterly overthrow the Law, for one that was not of the Line of Aaron to officiate in the holy place; and God had by the Law made provision of others, that there was neither room nor place for his Ministry. And the Gospel also would have been of no use thereby, seeing the Sacrifice which it is built upon, would have been of the same nature with those under the Law. This the Apostle confirms in this Verse.
Having fully manifested these things, unfolding the mystery of them, he proceeds in this Verse to shew how necessary it was that so it should be, namely that he should neither offer the things appointed in the Law, nor yet abide in the state and condition of a Priest here on earth, as those other Priests did. In brief he proves that he was not in any thing to take on him the Administration of holy things in the Church, according as they were then established by Law. For whereas it might be objected, If the Lord Christ was an High Priest as he pleaded, why then did he not administer the holy things of the Church according to the duty of a Priest? To which he replies, That so he was not to do; yea a supposition that he might do so, was inconsistent with his Office, and destructive both of the Law and the Gospel. For it would utterly overthrow the Law, for one that was not of the Line of Aaron to officiate in the holy place; and God had by the Law made provision of others, that there was neither room nor place for his Ministry. And the Gospel also would have been of no use thereby, seeing the Sacrifice which it is built upon, would have been of the same nature with those under the Law. This the Apostle confirms in this Verse.