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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53678	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 ...	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1680 (1680)	Wing O729; ESTC R21737	1,235,588	797

on with the finger of God containing the Ten Commandments which were the substance of Gods Covenant with the People This Testimony this Covenant these Tables of Stone with the Moral Law engraven in them were by the express command of God put into the Ark Exod. 25. 16. Chap. 33. 18. Chap. 40. 20. Deut. 10. 5. And there was nothing else in the Ark but these two Tables of Stone with the Law written in them as is expresly affirmed 1 Kings 8. 9. 2 Chron. 5. 10. Wherefore whereas it is said of Aaron's Rod and the Pot of Manna that they were placed before the Testimony Exod. 16. 34. Numb 17. 10. that is the Ark and the Book of the Law was also put into the side of it that is laid beside it Deut. 31. 26. and not only are the Tables of Stone appointed expresly to be put into the Ark but also it is likewise affirmed that there was nothing else in the Ark but these Tables of Stone This Place of the Apostle hath been exceedingly tortured and perplexed by Criticks and all sorts of Expositors with multiplied conjectures Objections and Solutions I know not that the Repetition of them in this place would be of any use Those who have a mind to exercise themselves about them do know where to find them I shall therefore give only that interpretation of the words which for the Substance of it all sober Expositors do at least betake themselves unto The true real positure of these things was after this manner In the closed Ark there was nothing at all but the two Tables of Stone Before it or at the ends of it adjoyning unto it were the Pot of Manna and the miracle-working Rod. Neither of these were of any actual use in the service of God but only were kept as sacred Memorials Unto this end being placed by it they were joyned unto and reckoned with the Ark. This appurtenance of them unto the Ark the Apostle expresseth by the Preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now this preposition is so frequently used in the Scripture to signify adhesion conjunction approximation Appurtenance of one thing unto another that it is meer Cavilling to assign it any other signification in this place or to restrain it unto inclusion only the things themselves requiring that sense See Job 19. 20. Deut. 6. 7. 1 Sam. 1. 42. Hos. 4. 3. Luke 1. 17. Iosh. 10. 10. Matth. 21. 12. And a Multitude of Instances are gathered by others VER 5. And over it the Cherubims of Glory Shadowing the Mercy-Seat of which things we cannot now speak particularly THE Apostle proceedeth in his Description of the immediate appurtenances of the Ark. He hath declared what was disposed with reference unto it as the Golden Censer what was before it as the Pot of Manna and Aaron's Rod what was within it namely the Tables of the Covenant Now he sheweth what was over it so giving an account of its whole Furniture and all that any way belonged unto it Two things he adds namely 1. The Cherubims 2. The Mercy-Seat And first he describes the Cherubims 1. By their positure they were over the Ark. 2. By their Title Cherubims of Glory 3. Their use they Shadowed the Mercy-Seat The Making Form Fashion and Use of these Cherubims is declared Exod. 25. The signification of the Name and their original shape or form any farther then that they were alata animata winged Creatures are not certainly known Most as unto the Derivation of the Name follow Kimchi who affirms the Letter Caph to be servile and a note of Similitude and the word to signify a Youth or a Child Such these Images are thought to represent only they had Wings instead of Arms as we now usually paint Angels for their Bodies Sides and Feet are mentioned in other places Isa. 6. 2. Ezek. 1. 5 6 7. where they are expresly said to have the Shape of a man Wherefore both as they were first framed for the Tabernacle and afterwards for the Temple when their Dimensions were exceedingly enlarged they were of humane shape only with wings to denote the Angelical Nature They were two of them one at each end of the Ark or Mercy-Seat Their faces were turned inwards one towards another so as that their wings touched one another This Posture gave unto the whole work of the Ark Mercy-Seat and Cherubims the form of a Seat which represented the Throne of God From thence he spake whence the whole was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Oracle As unto their place and posture they were over the Ark. For these Cherubims had feet whereon they stood 2 Chron. 3. 13. And these feet were joyned in one continued beaten work unto the ends of the Mercy-Seat which was upon the Ark Wherefore they were wholly over it or above it as the Apostle here speaks 2. As unto the Apellation whereby he describes them it is Cherubims of Glory That is say Expositors generally 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glorious Cherubims If so this term is not given them from the matter whereof they were made Those indeed in the Tabernacle were of beaten Gold being but of a small measure or proportion Exod. 25. 18. Those in the Temple of Solomon were made of the wood of the Olive Tree only overlaid with Gold For they were very large extending their wings unto the whole breadth of the Oracle which was twenty Cubits 1 King 6. 23. 2 Chron. 3. 10. But such was the matter of other utensils also as the Candlesticks which yet are not called the Candlesticks of Glory Nor are they so called from their shape and fashion For this as I have shewed most probably was humane shape with wings wherein there was nothing peculiarly glorious But they are so called from their posture and use For stretching out their wings on high and looking inwards with an appearance of veneration and so compassing the Mercy-Seat with their wings all but the forepart of it they made a Representation of a Glorious Seat or Throne wherein the Majestatical Presence of God did sit and reside And from between these Cherubims above the Mercy-Seat it was that God spake unto Moses and gave out his Oracles Exod. 25. 22. As a man on a Throne speaks above the place where he sits and rests Hence may they be called the Glorious Cherubims But I must add that by glory here the Majestatical Presence of God himself is intended The Cherubims that represented the glorious Presence of God himself as he dwelt among the People So the Apostle reckoning up the Priviledges of the Hebrews Rom. 9. 4. affirms that unto them appertained the Adoption and the Glory And therein not the Ark is intended although it may be that is sometimes called the Glory or signified under that name as 1 Sam. 4. 21 22. Psal. 26. 8. But it is God himself in his peculiar Residence among the People that is in the Representation of

evidenced unto all 3. This Will of God Christ came to do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to effect to establish and perfectly to fulfil it How he did so the Apostle fully declareth in this Epistle He did it in the whole work of his Mediation from the susception of our Nature in the Womb unto what he doth in his supream Agency in Heaven at the Right Hand of God He did all things to accomplish this eternal purpose of the Will of God This seems to me the First Sense of the place Howbeit I would not as I said before exclude the former mentioned also For our Lord in all that he did was the Servant of the Father and received especial commands for all that he did This Commandment saith he have I received of my Father Hence in this sense also he came to do the Will of God He fulfilled the Will of his purpose by Obedience unto the Will of his Commands Hence it is added in the Psalm that he delighted to do the Will of God and that his Law was in the midst of his Bowels His delight in the Will of God as unto the laying down of his Life at the Command of God was necessary unto this doing of his Will And we may observe 1. The Foundation of the whole glorious work of the Salvation of the Church was laid in the Soveraign Will Pleasure and Grace of God even the Father Christ came only to do his Will 2. The coming of Christ in the Flesh was in the Wisdom Righteousness and Holiness of God necessary for to fulfil his Will that we might be saved unto his Glory 3. The fundamental motive unto the Lord Christ in his undertaking the work of Mediation was the Will and Glory of God Lo I come to do thy Will 5 ly The last thing in this Context is the Ground and Rule of this undertaking of the Lord Christ and this is the Glory of the Truth of God in his promises recorded in the word In the Volume of the Book it is written of me that I should fulfil thy Will O God There is a difficulty in these words both as to the Translation of the Original Text and as unto the Application of them And therefore Critical Observations have been multiplied about them which it is not my way or work to repeat Those that are Learned know where to find them and those that are not so will not be edified by them What is the true meaning and intention of the Holy Spirit in them is what we are to enquire into The Socinian Expositors have a peculiar conceit on this place They suppose the Apostle useth this expression 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to denote some especial Chapter or place in the Law This they conjecture to be that of Deut. 17. v. 18 19. And it shall be that when He the King to be chosen shall sit on the Throne of his Kingdom that he shall write him a Copy of this Law in a Book out of that which is before the Priests the Levites And it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his Life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God to keep all the words of this Law and these Statutes to do them David they say spoke those words in the Psalm and it is no where said that he should come to do the Will of God but in this place of Deuteronomy as he was to be the King of that people But there can be nothing more fond than this empty conjecture For 1. David is not at all intended in these words of the Psalmist any otherwise but as he was the Penman of the Holy Ghost and a Type of Christ on which account he speaks in his name They are the words of Christ which David was inspired by the Holy Ghost to declare and utter neither would David speak these words concerning himself because he that speaks doth absolutely prefer his own Obedience as unto Worth and Efficacy before all Gods Holy Institutions He presents it unto God as that which is more useful unto the Church than all the Sacrifices which God had Ordained This David could not do justly 2. There is nothing spoken in this place of Deuteronomy concerning the Sacerdotal Office but only of the Regal And in this place of the Psalmist there is no respect unto the Kingly Office but only unto the Priesthood For Comparison is made with the Sacrifices of the Law But the Offering of these Sacrifices was expresly forbidden unto the Kings as is manifest in the instance of King Uzziah 2 Chron. 26. ver 18 19 20. Besides there is in that place of Deuteronomy no more respect had unto David than unto Saul or Jeroboam or any other that was to be King of that people There is nothing in them that belongs unto David in a peculiar manner 3. The words there recorded contain a meer prescription of Duty no prediction of the event which for the most part was contrary unto what is required But the words of the Psalmist are a Prophesie a Divine Prediction and Promise which must be actually accomplished Nor doth our Lord Christ in them declare what was prescribed unto him but what he did undertake to do and the record that was made of that undertaking of his 4. There is not one word in that place of Moses concerning the removal of Sacrifices and Burnt Offerings which as the Apostle declares is the principal thing intended in those of the Psalmist Yea the contrary as unto the season intended is expresly asserted For the King was to read in the Book of the Law continually that he might observe and do all that is written therein a great part whereof consists in the Institution and Observation of Sacrifices 5. This Interpretation of the words utterly overthrows what they dispute for immediately before This is that the entrance mentioned of Christ into the World was not indeed his coming into this World but his going out of it and entring into Heaven For it cannot be denied but that the Obedience of reading the Law continually and doing of it is to be attended unto in this World and not in Heaven and this they seem to acknowledge so as to recal their own Exposition Other absurdities which are very many in this place I shall not insist upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We with many others render in answer unto the Hebrew in the Volume or Roll. Ribera contends that this Translation of the word the Volume or Roll of the Book is absurd Because saith he the Book it self was a Volume or a Roll and so it is as if he had said in the Roll of the Roll. But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we Translate a Book doth not signifie a Book as written in a Roll but only an Enuntiation or Declaration of any thing We now call any Book of greater quantity a Volume but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is properly a Roll and the words