A53696:1162
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.
Now in the Administration of the Law, the Church was thus far brought under § 3 the obligation of these Promises and Threatenings of Life and Death eternal, so far interested in the one, and made obnoxious unto the other, as that if they used not the Law according to the new dispensation of it, wherein it was put into a subserviency unto the Promise; as Gal. 3.19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. that they were left to stand and fall according to the absolute tenure of that first Covenant and its ratification, which by reason of the entrance of sin proved fatally ruinous unto all that cleaved unto it, Rom. 8.3. chap. 9.31.
Now in the Administration of the Law, the Church was thus far brought under § 3 the obligation of these Promises and Threatnings of Life and Death eternal, so far interested in the one, and made obnoxious unto the other, as that if they used not the Law according to the new dispensation of it, wherein it was put into a subserviency unto the Promise; as Gal. 3.19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. that they were left to stand and fall according to the absolute tenure of that first Covenant and its ratification, which by reason of the entrance of sin proved fatally ruinous unto all that cleaved unto it, Rom. 8.3. chap. 9.31.
Secondly, The Law had in this Administration of it, a new End and design put § 4 upon it, and that in three things. First, that it was made directive and instructive unto another End, and not merely preceptive as at the beginning. The Authoritative Institutions that in it were super-added to the Moral commands of the Covenant of works, did all of them direct and teach the Church to look for Righteousness and Salvation, the original ends of the first Covenant, in Another, and by another way; as the Apostle at large disputes in this Epistle, and declares positively,