A53696:106
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.
for whereas if the Opinions of the Novatians had been confirmed in the place, as it is not, it had been their duty to have relinquished their own Hypothesis, and gone over unto them, some of them discovered a mind rather to have broken in upon the Authority of God himself declared in his Word, than so to have done. And it is greatly to be feared that the same Spirit still working in others, is as effectual in them to reject the plain sense of the Scripture in sundry places, as it was ready to have been in them, to reject the words of it in this.
The Style and Method of a Writing may be such, as to lay a just Prejudice against its claim of Canonical Authority. For although the Subject Matter of a Writing, may be good and honest in the main of it, and generally suited unto the Analogy of faith, § 38 yet there may be in the manner of its composure and Writing, such an Ostentation of Wit, Fancy, Learning, or Eloquence, such an affectation of Words, Phrases, and Expressions, such Rhetorical paintings of things small and inconsiderable, as may sufficiently demonstrate humane Ambition, Ignorance, Pride, or Desire of Applause, to have been mixed in the forming and producing of it.1 Much of this Hierom observes in particular concerning the Book entitled the Wisdom of Solomon; Written as it is supposed by Philo an Eloquent and Learned man; redolet Graecam Eloquentiam. This consideration is of deserved moment in the Judgement we are to make of the spring or fountain from whence any Book doth proceed. For whereas, great variety of Style, and in manner of Writings may be observed in the Penmen of Canonical Scripture, yet in no one of them do the least footsteps of the failings and sinful infirmities of corrupted nature before mentioned appear. When therefore they manifest themselves, ⟨p. 23⟩they cast out the Writings wherein they are from that Harmony and consent which in general appears amongst all the Books of Divine Inspiration. Of the Style of this Epistle we have spoken before: Its Gravity, Simplicity, Majesty, and absolute suitableness unto the High, Holy, and Heavenly Mysteries treated of in it, are as far as I can find, not only very evident; but also by all acknowledged, who are able to judge of them.