A53696:1074
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 last appointment of God occasioned by the mercy solemnly remembered in the § 22 Passover, was the dedication of all the first-born Males unto himself. The Law of this dedication is recorded, Exod. 13.12, 13. and the manner of its performance is farther added, Numb. 18, 15, 16, 17. Every thing that openeth the matrix, in all flesh which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be of men or beast, shall be thine; nevertheless the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the first firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem; and those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, which is twenty Gerahs. But the firstling of a Cow, or the firstling of a Sheep, or the firstling of a Goat, thou shalt not redeem, they are holy, thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the Altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the Lord. The whole dedication of the first-born Males is, distributed into three parts, 1. Children, who were to be redeemed with five shekels, twenty Gerahs to one shekel, that is about twelve shillings of our money. 2. Clean beasts, such as were appointed to be offered in sacrifice on other occasions, as the Kine, the Sheep and the Goats. These were to be offered unto God, in a Sacrifice of burnt-offering without redemption or commutation, after they had been kept a month with the dam. 3. Unclean beasts, whereof an instance is given in the Ass, which were either to be redeemed with money by an agreement with the Priest, or to have their necks broke at the choice of the owner. And all of this to call to remembrance the mercy of God in sparing them, and theirs, when the first-born of man and beast, clean and unclean in Egypt, were destroyed. For hence a peculiar right of especial preservation arose unto God towards all their first-born, and this also not without a prospect towards the Redemption of the Church of the first-born by Jesus Christ. Heb. 12.23.
The last appointment of God occasioned by the mercy solemnly remembred in the § 22 Passover, was the dedication of all the first-born Males unto himself. The Law of this dedication is recorded,