A53696:1193
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.
To add unto the terror of this Sentence, they used to accompany the pronouncing § 25 of it with the sound of Trumpets and Horns, as the Targum says Barak did in his cursing of Mezoz, Judges 5.23. He shammatized him with four hundred Trumpets. And herein have they been imitated by the Church of Rome, in their shaking of Candles, and ringing of Bells on the like occasion.
To add unto the terror of this Sentence, they used to accompany the pronouncing § 25 of it with the sound of Trumpets and Horns, as the Targum sayes Barak did in his cursing of Mezoz, Judges 5.23. He shammatized him with four hundred Trumpets. And herein have they been imitated by the Church of Rome, in their shaking of Candles, and ringing of Bells on the like occasion.
I have not reported these things, as though for matter and manner, they wholly belonged unto the penalties of the Law that were of Divine Institution. Many things in the manner of their performance, as they are now expressed by the Rabbins, were certainly of their own arbitrary invention. When their use amongst them first began, is unknown; though it be not improbable, that sundry things of this nature were practised by them before the destruction of the Second Temple, when they had mixed many of their own Superstitions with the Worship of God, as is evident from the Gospel.