A53696:1047
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.
Abraham being the tenth Generation from Noah, exclusivè, was the son of Terah, of § 5 whom it is said, Gen. 11.26. that Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor and Haran: not doubtless in the same year, but then the eldest of them was born, who ever he was. If Abraham was the eldest, as he is first expressed, he was born 292 years ⟨p. 258⟩after the flood, in the three hundred ninety second year of the life of Shem, who outlived him thirty five years. And he was the sixth from Heber, born in the two hundred twenty fifth year of his age, who continuing longest of all the Postdiluvian Patriarchs, outlived Abraham about sixty four years. But there is a difficulty in this account. For if Abraham was born in the seventieth year of the age of Terah: Terah living in all two hundred and five years, Abraham at the death of Terah must needs be one hundred thirty five years of age. But the Scripture saith expressly that at his departure out of Haran, upon the death of his Father, he was no more but seventy five years old. And if he was seventy five years old at the death of his Father who lived two hundred and five years, he must be born in the one hundred and thirtieth of his Fathers life, and not before; which carries on his birth and death sixty years beyond the former account. So that he outlived Shem twenty five years, and dyed only four years before Heber. Although therefore he be mentioned before Haran, Gen. 11.26. yet indeed Haran was the Eldest Son of Terah, and born before Abraham sixty years. And it appears in the Story, that Lot and Sarah who were the Children of Haran (if Sarah was the Ischa mentioned, as most suppose she was, Gen. 11.29.) were not much younger then Abraham himself. For when Abraham was an hundred years old, Sarah was ninety, Gen. 17.17. and Lot may well be supposed to be Elder then she; so that of Necessity Haran must be many years elder then Abraham, even no less then sixty, as we have declared.
Abraham being the tenth Generation from Noah, exclusivè, was the son of Terah, of § 5 whom it is said,