A53696:1167
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.
§ 8 Of the Promises, whose accomplishment depended on the Institution of God by others, that is the principal and comprehensive of the rest, which is expressed, Exod. 20.12. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged. This, saith our Apostle, is the first commandment with promise, Ephes. 6.2. Not that the fore-going Precepts have no Promises annexed to the observation of them, nor merely because this hath a Promise literally expressed, but that it had the special kind of Promise, wherein Parents, by Gods institution, have power to prolong the lives of obedient Children, [Greek or Hebrew] They shall prolong thy days; that is, negatively, in not cutting of their life for disobedience, which was then in the power of natural Parents; and possibly by praying for their prosperity, blessing them in the name of God, and directing them into the ways and means of universal obedience, whereby their days might be multiplied: and on sundry other accounts.
§ 8 Of the Promises, whose accomplishment depended on the Institution of God by others, that is the principal and comprehensive of the rest, which is expressed, Exod. 20.12. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolon•ed. This, saith our Apostle, is the first commandment with promise, Ephes. 6.2. Not that the fore-going Precepts have no Promises annexed to the observation of them, nor meerly because this hath a Promise literally expressed, but that it had the special kind of Promise, wherein Parents, by Gods institution, have power to prolong the lives of obedient Children, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 They shall prolong thy days; that is, negatively, in not cutting of their life for disobedience, which was then in the power of natural Parents; and possibly by praying for their prosperity, blessing them in the name of God, and directing them into the ways and means of universal obedience, whereby their days might be multiplied: and on sundry other accounts.