A53696:1020
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.
§ 17 Answ. It will prove in the issue, that the mention of these, as well as of other Promises, will turn to their disadvantage. Their accomplishment in the sense of the Scripture hath been so plain, evident and manifest, that nothing but Prejudice and obstinate blindness can once call it into question. For the further manifestation hereof, we may observe, 1. That these things are not spoken absolutely, but comparatively; It is not to be thought, that in the days of the Messiah, there shall be no means of instruction in the knowledge of the Lord used; as that Parents should not teach their children; the Officers of the Church and others, those that stand in need of teaching: for neither do the Jews indeed imagine any such thing, nor can they do so, without the rejection of the Precepts of the Law of Moses, and the Predictions recorded in the Prophets, wherein God promiseth, that in those days he will give the people Pastors after his own heart, Priests and Levites, to teach them his mind and will. But this is that which is signified in these expressions; namely, that in those days there shall be such a plentiful effusion of the Spirit of Wisdom and Grace, as shall cause the true saving knowledge of God to be more easily obtained, and much more plentifully to abound, then it did in the time of the Law; when the people, by an hard yoke, and insupportable burden of carnal Ordinances, were darkly, meanly, and difficultly instructed in some part of the knowledge of God. And that the words are thus to be interpreted, the many promises that are given, concerning the instruction of the Church, in the days of the Messiah, and his own Office, of being the great Prophet of the Church, which the Jews acknowledge, do undeniably evince. 2. That the terms of all people and Nations are necessarily to be understood as before explained, for many Nations, those in an especial manner, in whom the Church of Christ is concerned; neither can any one place be produced, where an absolute universality of them is intended. 3. That the season of the accomplishment of these and the like Predictions, is not limited to the day or year of the Messiah's coming, as the Jews, amongst other impossible fictions, imagine; but extends it self unto the whole duration of the Kingdom of the Messiah, as hath been showed before. 4.
§ 17 Answ. It will prove in the issue, that the mention of these, as well as of other Promises, will turn to their disadvantage. Their accomplishment in the sense of the Scripture hath been so plain, evident and manifest, that nothing but Prejudice and obstinate blindness can once call it into question. For the further manifestation hereof, we may observe, 1. That these things are not spoken absolutely, but comparatively; It is not to be thought, that in the days of the Messiah, there shall be no means of instruction in the knowledge of the Lord used; as that Parents should not teach their children; the Officers of the Church and others, those that stand in need of teaching: for neither do the Jews indeed imagine any such thing, nor can they do so, without the rejection of the Precepts of the Law of Moses, and the Predictions recorded in the Prophets, wherein God promiseth, that in those days he will give the people Pastors after his own heart, Priests and Levites, to teach them his mind and will. But this is that which is signified in these expressions; namely, that in those days there shall be such a plentiful effusion of the Spirit of Wisdom and Grace, as shall cause the true saving knowledge of God to be more easily obtained, and much more plentifully to abound, then it did in the time of the Law; when the people, by an hard yoke, and insupportable burden of carnal Ordinances, were darkly, meanly, and difficultly instructed in some part of the knowledge of God. And that the words are thus to be interpreted, the many promises that are given, concerning the instruction of the Church, in the days of the Messiah, and his own Office, of being the great Prophet of the Church, which the Jews acknowledge, do undeniably evince. 2. That the terms of all people and Nations are necessarily to be understood as before explained, for many Nations, those in an especial manner, in whom the Church of Christ is concerned; neither can any one place be produced, where an absolute universality of them is intended. 3. That the season of the accomplishment of these and the like Predictions, is not limited to the day or year of the Messiah's coming, as the Jews, amongst other impossible fictions, imagine; but extends it self unto the whole duration of the Kingdom of the Messiah, as hath been shewed before. 4.