A53696:1022
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.
§ 18 These things being supposed, we may quickly see what was the Event, as to those Promises, upon the coming of the true and only Messiah: For, 1. It is known to all, and not denied by those with whom we have to do, that at the coming of Jesus of Nazareth, setting aside that knowledge and worship of God which was in Judea, a little corner of the earth, and that also by their own confession then horribly defiled ⟨p. 251⟩and profaned the whole world, especially the greatest and most potent and flourishing Nations of it; in particular the whole Roman Empire, especially concerned in these predictions, was utterly ignorant of the true God, and engaged in the Worship of Idols and Devils, and that from time immemorial. 2. That although the Jews had taken great pains, and compassed Sea and Land to make Proselytes, yet they were very few, and those very obscure persons, whom they could at any time, or in any place prevail withal to receive the knowledge, or give up themselves unto the Worship of the God of Israel; of converting People or Nations unto his obedience, they now entertained the least hopes. 3. It is manifest to all the world, that not only upon the coming of Jesus, but also by virtue of his Law and Doctrine, all the Old Idolatry of the world was destroyed, and that whole fabric of Superstition, which Satan had been so many Ages engaged in the erection of, was cast to the ground, and those Gods of the Earth which the Nations worshipped utterly famished. Hence it is come to pass at this day, that no People or Nation under Heaven doth continue to worship those Gods, which the Old Empires of the World adored as their Deities, and in whose service they waged War against the God of Israel and his people. And all that knowledge that is at this day in the world of one true living God, and the reception of the God of Israel, for that true God, however abused, as it is by some, Mahometans and others, it did all originally proceed from the Doctrine of Jesus Christ, whom these ungrateful people hate and persecute. Had it not been for him and his Gospel, the true God, the God of their fore-fathers, had been no more owned in the world at this day, then he was at his coming in the flesh; and yet these poor blinded creatures, can see no glory in him or in his Ministry. 4.
§ 18 These things being supposed, we may quickly see what was the Event, as to those Promises, upon the coming of the true and only Messiah: For, 1. It is known to all, and not denied by those with whom we have to do, that at the coming of Jesus of Nazareth, setting aside that knowledge and worship of God which was in Judea, a little corner of the earth, and that also by their own confession then horribly defiled