A53696:1049
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.
averring, that Stephen cannot otherwise be defended, who affirms, that he was in Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Charan. But as this defence of Stephen is needless, seeing as we have manifested, he took Mesopotamia in a large sense, as others did also, giving the same Extent unto it with Assyria, the denomination arising from the most eminent and fruitful of these Regions: So the removal of a little way, or a few miles, answereth not that description which the Holy Ghost gives us of journey, Gen. 11.31. And Terah took Abraham his Son, and Lot the Son of Haran, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the Land of Canaan, and they came unto Haran and dwelt there. There design was to go unto Canaan: And as the Ura which was in Babylonia was situated on this side of Euphrates as Pliny testifies: So that Abraham could not go from thence unto Canaan by Haran, but he must twice needlessly pass with all his family over Euphrates, so the expression of their journeying to Haran will not suit unto any imaginary Ur within a few miles of it. Nor is it any weight that it is called Ur of the Chaldees, whose proper ⟨p. 259⟩seat was in Babylonia, and not extended much farther Eastward, seeing if the Chaldees, as is most probable, were called Chasdim, as they are constantly, from [Greek or Hebrew] Chesed the Son of Nachor the Brother of Abraham, there must of necessity be allowed an Historical Prolepsis in the words; and that is called Ur of the Chaldees, from whence the Chaldees were afterwards to have their Original, who in time possessed Babylonia and the parts adjacent.
averring, that Stephen cannot otherwise be defended, who affirms, that he was in Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Charan. But as this defence of Stephen is needless, seeing as we have manifested, he took Mesopotamia in a large sense, as others did also, giving the same Extent unto it with Assyria, the denomination arising from the most eminent and fruitful of these Regions: So the removal of a little way, or a few miles, answereth not that decription which the Holy Ghost gives us of journey, Gen. 11.31. And Terah took Abraham his Son, and Lot the Son of Haran, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the Land of Canaan, and they came unto Haran and dwelt there. There design was to go unto Canaan: And as the Ʋra which was in Babylonia was scituated on this side of Euphrates as Pliny testifies: So that Abraham could not go from thence unto Canaan by Haran, but he must twice needlesly pass with all his family over Euphrates, so the expression of their journying to Haran will not suit unto any imaginary Ʋr within a few miles of it. Nor is it any weight that it is called Ʋr of the Chaldees, whose proper