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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
Exegesis of chapter 7: An Exposition on the VII. CHAPTER of the Epistle to the Hebrews. CHAP. VII.
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An Exposition on the VII. CHAPTER of the Epistle to the Hebrews. CHAP. VII.
THERE are almost as many different Analyses given of this Chapter, as there are Commentators upon it. And sometimes the same Person proposeth sundry of them, without a Determination of what he principally adheres unto. All of them endeavour to reduce the whole Discourse of the Apostle unto such a Method as they judge most Artificial and Argumentative. But, as I have else-where Observed, the Force of the Apostles Reasonings doth not absolutely depend on any such Method of Arguing as we have framed unto our selves. There is something in it more Heavenly and Sublime, suited to convey the Efficacy of Spiritual Truth, as to the Understanding, so to the Will and Affections also. For this Reason I shall not insist on the Reducing of this Discourse unto any precise Logical Analysis, which none of the Ancients do attempt. But whereas those Methods which are proposed by Learned Men, whereunto, in their Judgment, the Apostles Arguing is reducible, are only Diverse, and not Contradictory unto one another: The Consideration of all, or any of them, may be of good Use to give Light unto sundry passages in the Context. Those who have Laboured herein with most appearance of Accuracy, are Piscator and Gomarus. My Design being to Examine and Consider all the Apostles Arguings, and their Connections particularly, I shall content my self with a plain and obvious Account of the Whole in general.
THERE are almost as many different Analyses given of this Chapter, as there are Commentators upon it. And sometimes the same Person proposeth sundry of them, without a Determination of what he principally adheres unto. All of them endeavour to reduce the whole Discourse of the Apostle unto such a Method as they judge most Artificial and Argumentative. But, as I have else-where Observed, the Force of the Apostles Reasonings doth not absolutely depend on any such Method of Arguing as we have framed unto our selves. There is something in it more Heavenly and Sublime, suited to convey the Efficacy of Spiritual Truth, as to the Understanding, so to the Will and Affections also. For this Reason I shall not insist on the Reducing of this Discourse unto any precise Logical Analysis, which none of the Ancients do attempt. But whereas those Methods which are proposed by Learned Men, whereunto, in their Judgment, the Apostles Arguing is reducible, are onely Diverse, and not Contradictory unto one another: The Consideration of all, or any of them, may be of good Use to give Light unto sundry passages in the Context. Those who have Laboured herein with most appearance of Accuracy, are Piscator and Gomarus. My Design being to Examine and Consider all the Apostles Arguings, and their Connexions particularly, I shall content my self with a plain and obvious Account of the Whole in general.