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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.
And Eusebius a Person less credulous than he, acknowledging that a just and true Catalogue of them could not be given, yet placeth Barnabas as the first of them concerning whom all agreed. Much weight indeed I shall not lay hereon, seeing it is evident that the Catalogues given us by the Ancients of those Disciples, are nothing but a rude Collection of such names as they found in the Books of the New Testament, applied without Reason or Testimony; but Apostle he was none.
And Eusebius a Person less credulous than he, acknowledging that a just and true Catalogue of them could not be given, yet placeth Barnabas as the first of them concerning whom all agreed. Much weight indeed I shall not lay hereon, seeing it is evident that the Catalogues given us by the Antients of those Disciples, are nothing but a rude Collection of such names as they found in the Books of the New Testament, applied without Reason or Testimony; but Apostle he was none.
Many circumstances also concur to the removal of this conjecture. The Epistle was written in Italy, Chap. 13.24. where it doth not appear that Barnabas ever was. The fabulous Author, I confess, of the Rhapsody called the Recognitions of Clemens, tells us that Barnabas went to Rome, taking along Clemens with him, and returning into Judea, found St. Peter at Caesarea. But St. Luke in the Acts gives us another account, both where Barnabas was, and how he was employed, at the time intimated by him who knew nothing of those things. For whilst St. Peter was at Caesarea, Acts 10.1. Barnabas was at Jerusalem, Acts 9.27. being a little while after sent to Antioch by the Apostles; chap. 11.22. Again Timothy was the Companion of the Writer of this Epistle. chap. 13.23. a Person as far as appears unknown unto Barnabas, being taken into St. Pauls Society after their difference and separation, Acts 15.39. chap. 16.1. He had also been in bonds or imprisonment, chap. 10.34. whereof we cannot at that time learn any thing concerning Barnabas, those of St. Paul being known unto all. And lastly, not long before the Writing of this Epistle, Barnabas was so far from that Light into, and Apprehension of the nature use and expiration of Judaical Rites herein expressed, that he was easily mislead into a practical miscarriage in the observation of them,