A53696:1067
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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§ 19 What are the observations of the late Jews in the imitation of their fore-Fathers observance of this Ordinance of God, the Reader may see in Buxtorf's Synagoga Judaica, and in part in the Annotations of A•sworth; and they need not here be repeated. This only I shall observe, that all of them in their Expositions of this Institution, do make the Application of its several parts unto other acts of God in dealing with them. Such as indeed the Text of Moses plainly leads them to. And this perfectly overthrows their pretensions, as to their other Ceremonies and Sacrifices; namely, that they were instituted for their own sakes, and not as signs of things to come; the figurative nature of this their greatest Ordinance being manifest, and acknowledged by themselves.
§ 19 What are the observations of the late Jews in the imitation of their fore-Fathers observance of this Ordinance of God, the Reader may see in Buxtorfs Synagoga Judaica, and in part in the Annotations of A•sworth; and they need not here be repeated. This only I shall ob•erve, that all of them in their Expositions of this Institution, do make the Application of its several parts unto other acts of God in dealing with them. Such as indeed the Text of Moses plainly leads them to. And this perfectly overthrows their pretensions, as to their other Ceremonies and Sacrifices; namely, that they were instituted for their own sakes, and not as signs of things to come; the figurative nature of this their greatest Ordinance being manifest, and acknowledged by themselves.
§ 20 On occasion of this great solemn Ordinance, there was given unto the People two additional Institutions; the first concerning the Writing of the Law on their foreheads and Hands, the other of the Dedication unto God of all that opened the Matrix: The first of these, is prescribed, Chap. 13.9. And it shall be for a sign upon thine hand, and as a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lords Law may be in thy mouth: ver. 16. and it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and as frontlets between thine eyes. Whereunto may be added Dut. 6.6, 7, 8, 9. And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou lyest down, and when thou risest up; and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes, and thou shalt write them upon the posts of thine house, and on thy gates. In the observation of sundry things, supposed to relate unto these precepts, consisteth the principal part of the Superstition of the present Jews. For they have mixed the observation of this duty whatever be intended by it, with many foolish and noisome