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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 › Exegesis of verses 1, 2, 3: Ver. 1, 2, 3.
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.
1. Every one is that in the Church and nothing else which God is pleased to make him so to be. Wherefore for us to rest in Gods Vocation is our Honour and our Safety as well as our Duty. For,
2. Where God Calleth any one unto a singular Honour and Office in his Church, it is in him a mere Act of his Sovereign Grace. So he took this Melchizedek who had nothing of Stock, Race, Descent, or Succession to recommend him, but as one as it were newly sprang out of the Earth, and raised him to the highest Dignity that any Man in those Days was capable of. Let us not therefore repine or murmur at any of Gods Dealings with others, nor envy because of his Gifts bestowed on them, may he not do what he will with his own, seeing he is greater than Man, and giveth no account of his matters?
2. Where God Calleth any one unto a singular Honour and Office in his Church, it is in him a meer Act of his Sovereign Grace. So he took this Melchisedec who had nothing of Stock, Race, Descent, or Succession to recommend him, but as one as it were newly sprang out of the Earth, and raised him to the highest Dignity that any Man in those Days was capable of. Let us not therefore repine or murmure at any of Gods Dealings with others, nor envy because of his Gifts bestowed on them, may he not do what he will with his own, seeing he is greater than Man, and giveth no account of his matters?
3. A Divine Call is a sufficient Warranty for the acting of them according unto it, who are so Called, and the Obedience of others unto them in their Work or Office. By Virtue hereof this Melchizedek arose in the midst of the Nations of the World, took on him a new Office and Power, being owned and submitted unto therein, by Abraham and all that Believed.