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Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews
Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole economy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the ancient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole oeconomy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the antient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...
London: printed by Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1668
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.
Exercitatio XXIII.
Of the Office of the Priesthood; the High Priest in particular. The most illustrious Type of Christ. The Call of Aaron unto the Priesthood. Things concurring unto his Call, and Separation unto his Office. The Garments prescribed unto him. Ordinary. Extraordinary. The Nature of the Office of the High Priest. What he performed himself alone. What with the Assistance of other Priests. What with the Assistance of Priests. and Levites. His blessing the people. His judging of them. The succession of these Priests. How many served under the Tabernacle. How many under the First Temple. How many under the Second Temple. The disturbance of this Succession. Fatal End of the Aaronical Priesthood.
The principal Glory or all Mosaical Worship consisted in the Person and Office § 1 of the High Priest. The Scripture calls him, [Greek or Hebrew], the Great Priest, [Greek or Hebrew], or [Greek or Hebrew]. This Priest with his Attendants of the same Family was the hinge, whereon the whole Worship of the Judaical Church depended and turned. And therefore our Apostle doth undeniably prove, that the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances was to be changed, because there was a promise of raising up a Priest that was not of the House of Aaron, nor of the Tribe of Levi, which the observation of the Law in the Worship of God could not consist withal, Heb. 7.11, 12. Now this High Priest being in his Person and his Office, the Most Illustrious Type of the Messiah and his Office, and the principal means whereby God instructed his Church of Old in the Mystery of the Reconciliation and Salvation of sinners, most things concerning him, are expressly and at large handled by our Apostle, and must, God assisting, come under our consideration in the several places wherein by him they are insisted on; I shall therefore here only in these previous discourses give a brief account of some such concernments of his Person and Office as will not directly again occur unto us.