A53696:1004
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.
But one of them having been for a season in the days of David, the special place of his worship, and the other the principal habitation of Church and people, God expresseth his Love and Goodwill to his Church and Worship under those names; and it is a fond thing to suppose, that the respects mentioned should be unto those places themselves, which now for a thousand years have lain waste and desolate. Those promises then which we find recorded concerning Zion, Jerusalem, the seed of Abraham, Jacob, Israel, do respect the Elect of God, called unto the faith of Abraham, and worshipping God according unto his appointment, be they of what People or Nation soever under heaven. And this we have proved before, in our dissertation about the Oneness of the Church, of the Old and New Testament.
But one of them having been for a season in the days of David, the special place of his worship, and the other the principal habitation of Church and people, God expresseth his Love and Goodwill to his Church and Worship under those names; and it is a fond thing to suppose, that the respects mentioned should be unto those places themselves, which now for a thousand years have lain waste and desolate. Those promises then which we find recorded concerning Sion, Hierusalem, the seed of Abraham, Jacob, Israel, do respect the Elect of God, called unto the faith of Abraham, and worshipping God according unto his appointment, be they of what People or Nation soever under heaven. And this we have proved before, in our dissertation about the Oneness of the Church, of the Old and New Testament.
Fifthly, By all people, all Nations, the Gentiles, all the Gentiles, not all absolutely, especially § 7 at any one time or season, are to be understood; but either the most eminent and most famous of them, or those in whom the Church, by reason of their vicinity, is more especially concerned. God oftentimes charged the Jews of old; that they had worshipped the gods of all ⟨p. 248⟩the Nations; whereby yet not all Nations absolutely, but only those that were about them, with whom they had commerce and communication, were intended. Those Expressions then of all Nations, and all Kingdoms who are said to come into the Church, and submit themselves unto the Kingdom of the Messiah, at his coming, do not denote all absolutely in the world, especially at any one time or season, but only such as are either most eminent among them or such as God would cause his light and truth to approach unto. And those which in an especial manner seem to be designed in those prophetical expressions, are that collection of Nations whereof the Roman Empire was constituted, which obtained the common appellation of the whole World, being for the main of them the posterity of Japheth, who were to be persuaded to dwell in the Tents of Shem. The Jews would have all Nations absolutely to be intended; and Kimchi, with Aben Ezra tells us on