A53696:1092
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.
But ⟨p. 271⟩as the place materially considered, is as evident an object of Gods displeasure against the lower part of the Creation, upon the account of sin, as almost any place in the world, a wast and howling Wilderness, a place left to solitude and barrenness, so in its allusion or relation to the Worship of God, it is cast by our Apostle under bondage, and placed in an opposition to the Worship and Church State of the Gospel, Gal. 4.24, 25.
Being come unto this place, it is said, Moses went up unto the Mount unto God. It § 32 doth not appear that he had any new immediate express command so to do: probably he both came to that place, and so soon as he came thither, went up into the Mountain, in obedience to the command, and faith in the promise of God which he received upon his first call, Exod. 3.12. wherein it was given him for a token and pledge of their deliverance, that thereon they should worship God, or receive the Law in that Mountain; which is also the judgement of Aben Ezra upon the place. And it is not unlikely, but that God at that time fixed the cloud which went before them, as the token of his presence, on the top of Sinai, as a new direction unto Moses for his going up thither.
Being ascended, God calls unto him, (the word of the Lord saith Jonathan) and § 33 teacheth him to prepare the People for the receiving of the Law, v. 4, 5. Two things he proposeth to their consideration; First The benefits that they had already been made partakers of hinted out unto them by the mighty and wonderful works of his power. And Secondly, New Privileges to be granted unto them. In the first, he minds them that he had born them on Eagles wings. This Jarchi interprets of their sudden gathering out of all the Coasts of Goshen unto Ramesis to go away together the same night, Chap. 12.37. But although it may be allowed, that they had in that wonderful collection of themselves, some especial Assistance of Providence, besides the preparation which they had been making for sundry days before, yet this expression, evidently extends it self unto the whole dispensation of God towards them, from the first of their deliverance unto that day. Generally they all of them explain this Allegorical expression from the manner how the Eagles, as they say, carry their young, which is on their backs or wings because they fear nothing above them, as soaring over all, whereas other Fowls carry their young between their feet, as fearing other Birds of Prey above them: But there is no need to wring the expression, to force out of it such uncertain niceties. There is no more intended, but that God carried them speedily and safely as an Eagle is born by its wings in her course.