A53696:1216
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.
This Ark made at Horeb, 1 King. 8.9. that is, at the foot of the mountain where the People encamped, finished with the rest of the Tabernacle on the first day, of the first month, of the second year of the coming of the Israelites out of Egypt, Exod. 40.13. being, as we have showed, the visible pledge of the presence of God amongst them, as it was placed with its Tabernacle in the midst of the People whilst they were encamped in the Wilderness, the body of them being distributed into four Hosts to the four quarters of Heaven, (Numb. 2.) that a blessing from thence might be equally communicated unto them all, and all might have an alike access to the worship of God; so it was carried in their marching in the midst of their Armies, with a pronunciation of a solemn Benediction when it began to set forward, and when it returned unto its Repository in the most holy place, Numb. 10.35, 36. This was the ordinary course in the removals of the Ark. In an extraordinary manner, God appointed it to be carried before all the people, when the waters of Jordan were divided by his power, whereof that was a pledge, Josh. 3.15. which the people on their own heads going ⟨p. 298⟩afterwards to imitate in their wars with the Philistines, received a sad reward of their temerity and boldness, 1 Sam. 4.
This Ark made at Horeb, 1 King. 8.9. that is, at the foot of the mountain where the People encamped, finished with the rest of the Tabernacle on the first day, of the first month, of the second year of the coming of the Israelites out of Egypt, Exod. 40.13. being, as we have shewed, the visible pledge of the presence of God amongst them, as it was placed with its Tabernacle in the midst of the People whilst they were encamped in the Wilderness, the body of them being distributed into four Hosts to the four quarters of Heaven, (