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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And this should teach us with what Diligence, with what Reverence, with what Subjection of Soul, and Resignation of our Understandings unto the Will and Wisdom of God, all Divine Revelations are to be enquired into. So dealt in this Matter the Holy men and Prophets of Old, 1 Pet. 1. 10, 11. And as for Want hereof, the whole Church of the Jews perished at this Season; So in all Ages sundry particular Persons did woefully miscarry; see Lev. 10. 1, 2, 3. 2 Sam. 6. 6, 7. 1 Chron. 14. 11. And the Want hereof is the Bane of most Churches in the World at this day.
And this should teach us with what Diligence, with what Reverence, with what Subjection of Soul, and Resignation of our Understandings unto the Will and Wisdom of God, all Divine Revelations are to be enquired into. So dealt in this Matter the Holy men and Prophets of Old, 1 Pet. 1. 10, 11. And as for Want hereof, the whole Church of the Jews perished at this Season; So in all Ages sundry particular Persons did wofully miscarry; see Lev. 10. 1, 2, 3. 2 Sam. 6. 6, 7. 1 Chron. 14. 11. And the Want hereof is the Bane of most Churches in the World at this day.
In Order unto the End mentioned, the Apostle in the first place declares, that Antecedently unto the giving of the Law, and the Institution of the Levitical Priesthood thereby, God had, without any Respect thereunto, given a Typical prefiguration of this Priesthood of Christ, in one who was on all Accounts Superior unto the Levitical Priests, when they were afterwards introduced. This Sacred Truth which had been hid for so many Ages in the Church, and which undeniably manifests the certain future Introduction of another and a better Priesthood, is here brought to light, and improved by the Apostle. As Life and Immortality, so all Spiritual Truth, was brought to light by the Gospel,