A53696:1056
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.
And these are the chief heads that are looked I upon by our Apostle in the Call of § 11 Abraham, which also we have been more brief in the explication of, because its consideration hath elsewhere occurred unto us. Now from this Call of Abraham unto the deliverance of the Children of Israel out of Egypt, was as Moses assures us, four hundred and thirty years, Exod. 12.40, 41. and so saith our Apostle, Gal. 3.17. But because the Lord tells Abraham, that his posterity should be afflicted in a strange Land four hundred years, Gen. 11.13. which words are repeated by Stephen in his Sermon to the Jews, Acts 7.6. the reason of this different account may be briefly enquired after. Here is a double limitation of time, 1. of four hundred and thirty years by Moses, and Paul. 2. Of four hundred years, by God himself unto Abraham, repeated by Stephen: The words of Moses are recorded, Exod. 12.40.41. Now the sojournings of the Children of Israel, in Egypt, were four hundred and thirty years; and it came to pass, at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even on the self same day, it came to pass, that all the Hosts of the Lord went out of the Land of Egypt. It is evident that there is an ambiguity in the words of Moses, for if [Greek or Hebrew] the sojourning, or dwelling in the beginning of the Verse do relate unto [Greek or Hebrew], dwelt in Egypt, it can design no longer space of time then they dwelt there after the descent of Jacob, which by an evident computation of the times, containeth but half the space limited, of four hundred and thirty years. If it refer only to the children of Israel, then it takes in all the sojournings and peregrinations of that People who dwelt in Egypt, from the first day of their being the people of God. Now this ambiguity is perfectly removed by our Apostle, Gal. 3.16, 17. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made; and the Covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the Law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disannul. The giving of the Law, was, as we shall see, immediately upon their coming out of Egypt; and saith he, the 430 years are to be reckoned from the Call of Abraham, when God first entered into Covenant with him;