A53696:1101
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.
Touching the Mountain, or the border, limit, or bound set unto it by Gods appointment, § 47 was the sin forbidden. And the end of it as was said, was that they should not break through [Greek or Hebrew], to see, to gaze say we, properly; to look with curiosity on the appearances of Gods glory, for which cause he smote the men of Bethshemesh upon their looking into the Ark, 1 Sam. 6. God intending by this prohibition, to beget in the People an awe and reverence of his holy Majesty as the Great Law-giver, and by the terror thereof to bring them and their posterity into that bondage frame of Spirit, that servile awe that was to abide upon them, until such time as he came, who was to give liberty and boldness to his Church, by dispensing unto Believers the Spirit of Adoption, enabling them to cry Abba Father; and to enter with boldness into the Holy Place, even to the Throne of Grace.
Touching the Mountain, or the border, limit, or bound set unto it by Gods appointment, § 47 was the sin forbidden. And the end of it as was said, was that they should not break through 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to see, to gaze say we, properly; to look with curiosity on the appearances of Gods glory, for which cause he smote the men of Bethshemesh upon their looking into the Ark, 1 Sam. 6. God intending by this prohibition, to beget in the People an awe and reverence of his holy Majesty as the Great Law-giver, and by the terror thereof to bring them and their posterity into that bondage frame of Spirit, that servile awe that was to abide upon them, untill such time as he came, who was to give liberty and boldness to his Church, by dispencing unto Believers the Spirit of Adoption, enabling them to cry Abba Father; and to enter with boldness into the Holy Place, even to the Throne of Grace.
In case the punishment appointed were neglected by the people, God threatens to § 48 see the execution of it himself, v. 21. Lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish. v. 24. And let not the Priests and the People break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them. For to make them watchful in their duty, he lets them know, that their miscarriage in this matter, devolving the punishment of the Transgressor by their neglect upon him, should be imputed by him unto the whole People, so that he would in such a cause break forth upon them with his judgements, and many of them should be consumed to the terror and warning of the remnant.