A53696:1206
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.
The Preparation for the Directions which God gave for the building of this Tabernacle § 2 is declared, Exod. 24. The Body of the people having heard the Law, that is, the ten Words or Commandments, which was all they heard, Deut. 9.10. (what God spake to them was written in the Two Tables of stone) they removed unto a greater distance from the Mount, Exod. 20.18, 19. After their Removal, Moses continued to receive from the Lord, that summary of the whole Law which is expressed, Chap. 21.22, 23. And all this as it should seem, at the first hearing, he wrote in a Book from the Mouth of God. For it is said, Chap. 24. v. 4. that he wrote all the words of the Lord. And v. 7. that he, took the Book of the Covenant, and read in the audience of the people.
The Jewish Masters suppose that it was the Book of Genesis that is there intended. For § 3 say they, the rest of the Law was not yet written, namely, before God himself had written or engraven the Ten Words on the Two Tables of Stone. But this is a fond imagination; seeing the Book which Moses read contained the form and tenor of the Covenant made with that people at Horeb, and is expressly so called, and as such, was then solemnly confirmed and ratified by Sacrifice. It may therefore be supposed, that there is a Prolepsis used in the recording of this story, and that indeed the confirmation of the Covenant by Sacrifice, which was accompanied with the Reading of the Book, was not until after the third return of Moses from the Mount, with the renewed Tables. But this also may well be doubted, seeing this Sacrifice was prepared and offered by the young Men of the Children of Israel, v. 5. that is, the First Born, whose Office was superseded upon the Separation of Aaron and his Sons unto the Priesthood, which God had designed before that last descent of Moses from the Mount. We must therefore leave things in the order wherein they are set down and recorded. ⟨p. 296⟩