A53696:1053
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
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§ 9 When his Father Terah was dead, and himself seventy five years old, Chap. 12.14. God called him to himself, and entered into Covenant with him in the promise of the Land of Canaan, v. 7. And this Call of his, was the great foundation whereon God afterwards built the whole Structure of his Worship under the Old Testament. For herein he both appropriated the promise of the Messiah unto him, designing his person as the spring, from whom he should proceed according to the flesh, and set both him and his posterity a-part, to be visibly subservient unto the great design of his Grace in the accomplishment of the promise of a Deliverer made unto our first Parents. This we have elsewhere at large declared, and showed how that after his Call, every thing was disposed unto a significancy of that which was for to come, and was suited for a continuance unto that season, and no longer.
§ 9 When his Father Terah was dead, and himself seventy five years old, Chap. 12.14. God called him to himself, and entred into Covenant with him in the promise of the Land of Canaan, v. 7. And this Call of his, was the great foundation whereon God afterwards built the whole Structure of his Worship under the Old Testament. For herein he both appropriated the promise of the Messiah unto him, designing his person as the spring, from whom he should proceed according to the flesh, and set both him and his posterity a-part, to be visibly subservient unto the great design of his Grace in the accomplishment of the promise of a Deliverer made unto our first Parents. This we have elsewhere at large declared, and shewed how that after his Call, every thing was disposed unto a significancy of that which was for to come, and was suited for a continuance unto that season, and no longer.
§ 10 When Abraham was ninety and nine years old, that is also he had been twenty four years in the Land of Canaan. The Lord confirms his Covenant with him and his seed, by the sign and token of Circumcision, Gen. 17.8, 9, 10, 11, 12. which Paul calls, the seal of the righteousness of faith,