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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.
The most manifest Eviction of any Writing pretending unto the privilege of Divine Inspiration, may be taken from the Subject Matter of it, or the things taught and declared therein. God himself being the first and only Essential Truth, nothing § 37 can proceed from him, but what is absolutely so; and Truth being but one, every way Uniform and Consonant unto it self, there can be no discrepancy in the branches of it, nor contrariety in the streams that flow from that one Fountain. God is also Holy, Glorious in Holiness, and nothing proceeds immediately from him, but it bears a stamp of his Holiness, as also of his Greatness and Wisdom. If then any thing in the Subject Matter of any Writing, be Untrue, Impious, Light, or any way contradictory to the Ascertained Writings of Divine Inspiration, all Pleas and pretences unto that privilege must cease for ever. We need no other Proof, Testimony or Argument to evince its Original, than what its self tenders unto us. And by this means also do the Books commonly called Apocryphal, unto which the Romanists ascribe Canonical Authority, destroy their own pretensions. They have all of them, on this account, long since been cast out of the limits of any tolerable defence. Now, that no one portion of Scripture, is less obnoxious to any exception of this kind, from the Subject Matter treated of, and Doctrines delivered in it, then this Epistle, we shall by Gods assistance manifest in our Exposition of the whole, and each particular passage of it. Neither is it needful, that we should here prolong our Discourse by anticipating any thing that must necessarily afterwards in its proper place, be insisted on. The place startled at by some Chap. 6. about the impossibility of the recovery of Apostates, was touched on before, and shall afterwards be fully cleared. Nor do I know any other use to be made of observing the scruple of some of Old, about the countenance given to the Novatians by that place, but only to make a Discovery how partially men in all Ages have been addicted unto their own apprehensions in things wherein they differed from others;
The most manifest Eviction of any Writing pretending unto the priviledge of Divine Inspiration, may be taken from the Subject Matter of it, or the things taught and declared therein. God himself being the first and only Essential Truth, nothing § 37 can proceed from him, but what is absolutely so; and Truth being but one, every way Ʋniform and Consonant unto it self, there can be no discrepancy in the branches of it, nor contrariety in the streams that flow from that one Fountain. God is also Holy, Glorious in Holiness, and nothing proceeds immediately from him, but it bears a stamp of his Holiness, as also of his Greatness and Wisdom. If then any thing in the Subject Matter of any Writing, be Ʋntrue, Impious, Light, or any way contradictory to the Ascertained Writings of Divine Inspiration, all Pleas and pretences unto that priviledge must cease for ever. We need no other Proof, Testimony or Argument to evince its Original, than what its self tenders unto us. And by this means also do the Books commonly called Apochryphal, unto which the Romanists ascribe Canonical Authority, destroy their own pretentions. They have all of them, on this account, long since been cast out of the limits of any tolerable defence. Now, that no one portion of Scripture, is less obnoxious to any exception of this kind, from the Subject Matter treated of, and Doctrines delivered in it, then this Epistle, we shall by Gods assistance manifest in our Exposition of the whole, and each particular passage of it. Neither is it needful, that we should here prolong our Discourse by anticipating any thing that must necessarily afterwards in its proper place, be insisted on. The place startled at by some Chap. 6. about the impossibility of the recovery of Apostates, was touched on before, and shall afterwards be fully cleared. Nor do I know any other use to be made of observing the scruple of some of Old, about the countenance given to the Novatians by that place, but only to make a Discovery how partially men in all Ages have been addicted unto their own apprehensions in things wherein they differed from others;