A53696:119
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.
First, The Uncertainty of them who question whether Paul were the Writer of this § 3 Epistle, and their want of probable grounds in assigning it unto any other, hath some inducement in it to leave it unto him whose of Old it was esteemed to be. For when once men began to take to themselves a liberty of Conjecture in this matter, they could neither make an end themselves, nor fix any bounds unto the imagination of others. Having once lost its true Author no other could be asserted with any such evidence, or indeed probability, but that instantly twenty more with as good Grounds and Reasons might be entitled unto it. Accordingly sundry Persons have been named, all upon the same account that some thought good to name them; and why should not one mans Authority in this matter be as good as another's?
First, The Ʋncertainty of them who question whether Paul were the Writer of this § 3 Epistle, and their want of probable grounds in assigning it unto any other, hath some inducement in it to leave it unto him whose of Old it was esteemed to be. For when once men began to take to themselves a liberty of Conjecture in this matter, they could neither make an end themselves, nor fix any bounds unto the imagination of others. Having once lost its true Author no other could be asserted with any such evidence, or indeed probability, but that instantly twenty more with as good Grounds and Reasons might be entitled unto it. Accordingly sundry Persons have been named, all upon the same account that some thought good to name them; and why should not one mans Authority in this matter be as good as anothers?
Origen in Eusebius affirms that some supposed Luke to have been the Author of § 4 this Epistle. But neither doth he approve their Opinion, nor mention what Reasons they pretend for it. He adds also that some esteemed it to be written by Clemens of Rome. Clemens of Alexandria allows St. Paul to be the Author of it;1 but supposeth it might be Translated by Luke, because as he saith, the Style of it is not unlike that of his in the Acts of the Apostles. Grotius of late contends for Luke to be the Author of it on the ⟨p. 26⟩