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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.
and the great Elijah, 1when he supposed none left in Israel that worshipped God aright but himself, 1 Kings 19.14, 18. It was then , as we said, the Word of Prophecy, that gave the Writers of it the Reputation and Authority of Prophets; and their being Prophets gave not Authority to the Word they declared or wrote as a Word of Prophecy. Hence an anxious enquiry after the Penman of any part of the Scripture is not necessary.
and the great Elijah, 1when he supposed none left in Israel that worshipped God aright but himself, 1 Kings 19.14, 18. It was then , as we said, the Word of Prophesie, that gave the Writers of it the Reputation and Authority of Prophets; and their being Prophets gave not Authority to the Word they declared or wrote as a Word of Prophesie. Hence an anxious enquiry after the Penman of any part of the Scripture is not necessary.
- 1Clemens. Origen. Eusebius. Hieronym. Theodoret. Chrysostom. Cajetan. Erasmus. Camero. Grotius, & omnes fere Commentatores.
But whereas there want not Evidences sufficient to discover who was the Writer of this Epistle, whereby also the exceptions made unto its Divine Original may be finally obviated, they also shall be taken into Consideration. A Subject this is, wherein many Learned Men of Old, and of Late, have exercised themselves,1 until this single Argument is grown up into entire and large Treatises, and I shall only take care that the Truth which hath been already strenuously asserted and vindicated, may not again by this review be rendered dubious and questionable.