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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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1. The Wisdom and Grace of God in the Constitution and making of the Covenant at Sinai; in the Institutions of all the Worship and Divine services thereunto belonging; in the Holy Fabrics, offerings and sacrifices of the Priests and Church of Israel, are declared and manifested therein. For all these things in themselves were carnal, and so used by the generality of the People, in a way unworthy of the Wisdom and Holiness of God.
1. The Wisdom and Grace of God in the Constitution and making of the Covenant at Sinai; in the Institutions of all the Worship and Divine services thereunto belonging; in the Holy Fabricks, offerings and sacrifices of the Priests and Church of Israel, are declared and manifested therein. For all these things in themselves were carnal, and so used by the generality of the People, in a way unworthy of the Wisdom and Holiness of God.
But the Apostle declares and makes it evident in these Chapters, that in the design and intention of God, they had all of them an End and Use far more glorious than what appeared in their outward Administration; As also what intimations God made unto the Church of this end of them, and his intention in them.
2. There is therefore in these Chapters an absolute, infallible Interpretation of the whole Law, without which it would be a Sealed Book, and of no use unto us. But as the intention and mind of God in those legal Institutions is here declared, there is nothing in the whole Scripture that tends more to the illumination of our Minds, and the strengthening of our Faith, than doth the Law of these Institutions, as is manifested on all occasions in our Exposition. By virtue hereof there is not the meanest Christian Believer, but doth or may understand more of the Books of Exodus and Leviticus, see more of the Wisdom, Holiness and Grace of God in them, and know more of the nature and use of these legal Institutions, not only than all the present Jews, and their Teachers, but than was ever distinctly known in the Church of Israel, of Old.