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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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And we may consider first the Causal Connection, For, which relates unto what he had discoursed immediately before, as introducing a Reason why things ought to be, as he had declared. He had in sundry instances manifested his present state and condition, with the way and manner of the discharge of his Office. A Priest he was, and therefore he must have somewhat to offer, which must be somewhat of his own, seeing the Law would not accommodate him with a Sacrifice, nor yet the whole Creation; the Law having prepossessed unto its own use, all that was clean ⟨p. 199⟩and fit to be offered unto God. A Sanctuary he must also have wherein to officiate, and this was to be Heaven itself, because he was himself exalted into Heaven, and set down at the right hand of God. And of all this there was yet another especial Reason; For if he were on the earth, &c.
And we may consider first the Causal Connexion, For, which relates unto what he had discoursed immediately before, as introducing a Reason why things ought to be, as he had declared. He had in sundry instances manifested his present state and condition, with the way and manner of the discharge of his Office. A Priest he was, and therefore he must have somewhat to offer, which must be somewhat of his own, seeing the Law would not accommodate him with a Sacrifice, nor yet the whole Creation; the Law having prepossessed unto its own use, all that was clean ⟨p. 199⟩and fit to be offered unto God. A Sanctuary he must also have wherein to officiate, and this was to be Heaven itself, because he was himself exalted into Heaven, and set down at the right hand of God. And of all this there was yet another especial Reason; For if he were on the earth, &c.
If indeed he were on earth. The Emphasis of the Particle Per is not to be omitted. 1If really it were so; or therein is Force granted unto the Concession that the Apostle here makes; truly it must be so.