A53678:892
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. The Apostle in these words by an Artificial Transition, lands us on that 1Coast which he all this while steered towards; and this is the Priesthood of Christ as represented in that of Melchizedek. This he had asserted chap. 5. 12. But upon the consideration of the depth of this Mystery, the Importance of the subject matter of it, with the present state of the most of these Hebrews, he engageth into that long digression for their due preparation unto the hearing and receiving of it, which we have now passed through. Wherefore ⟨p. 177⟩having discharged his Conscience and Duty towards them in various Admonitions, he returns again in these words unto that design and discourse, which there he had broken off. And from the Nature of his Digression we may learn that,
2. The Apostle in these words by an Artificial Transition, lands us on that 1Coast which he all this while steered towards; and this is the Priesthood of Christ as represented in that of Melchisedec. This he had asserted chap. 5. 12. But upon the consideration of the depth of this Mystery, the Importance of the subject matter of it, with the present state of the most of these Hebrews, he engageth into that long digression for their due preparation unto the hearing and receiving of it, which we have now passed through. Wherefore ⟨p. 177⟩having discharged his Conscience and Duty towards them in various Admonitions, he returns again in these words unto that design and discourse, which there he had broken off. And from the Nature of his Digression we may learn that,
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