A53696:1223
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.
In Ezekiel's Vision of the living creatures, which he also calleth Cherubims, chap. § 16 10.2. there is the shape of a man ascribed unto them, they had the likeness of a man, chap. 1.5. faces, ver. 6. feet, ver. 7. hands, ver. 8. sides, or body, ver. 8, 11. each of them also had four faces; of a Man, a Lion, an Ox, and an Eagle, ver. 10. and each had four wings, ver. 23. In John's vision in the Revelation, seeming to answer this of Ezekiel's Cherubims, from the eyes that his living creatures were full of, and the appearance of their faces, they had each of them six wings, answering unto those of the Seraphims in the Vision of Isaiah, chap. 6.2.
The Jews generally affirm, that these visions of the glory of God by Isaiah and Ezekiel § 17 were the same, and that Ezekiel saw nothing but what Isaiah saw also; only they say, that Ezekiel saw the glory of God and his Majesty, as a country man who admires at all the splendour of the Court of the King, Isaiah as a Courtier, who took notice only of the Person of the King himself. But there are many evident differences in their visions. Isaiah calls the glorious Ministers of God [Greek or Hebrew] Seraphims, from their nature, compared to fire and light; Ezekiel [Greek or Hebrew] Cherubims, from their speed in the accomplishment of their duty. Isaiah saw his vision as in the Temple; for although from those words, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the Temple. Aben-Ezra and Kimchi suppose, that he saw the Throne of God in Heaven, and only his train of Glory descending into the Temple; yet it is more probable that he saw the Throne it self in the Temple, his train spreading abroad to the filling of the whole house. For he calls the Temple, the Throne of his Glory, Jer. 14.21. and a glorious high Throne, chap. 17.12. that is, a Throne high and lifted up, as in this place. Ezekiel saw his vision abroad in the open field, by the River of Chebar, chap. 1.3. Isaiah first saw the Lord himself, and then his glorious attendants; Ezekiel first the Charist of his glory, and then God above it. Isaiah's Seraphims had six wings, with two whereof they covered their faces, which Ezekiel's Cherubims had not; and that because Isaiah's vision represented Christ