A53696:1269
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.
§ 1 The principal Worship and Service of God, both in the Tabernacle and Temple, consisted in Offerings and Sacrifices. For these did directly represent, and in their general nature answered that which was the foundation of the Church, and all the Worship thereof; namely, the Sacrifice of the Son of God: and he is called the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, Joh. 1. v. 29. because he fulfilled and perfectly accomplished what was prefigured by the sacrifice of Lambs, and other creatures, from the foundation of the world. Neither were these Offerings and Sacrifices any thing, but means of Gods institution, for men to express by them their faith in the first promise. Nor were Sacrifices in general now first instituted, nor the kinds of them first appointed; but the most of them were observed upon Divine Revelation and command from the entrance of sin, and giving of the Promise; only they were rescued in the repetition of them unto Moses, from the superstition that was grown in their observance, and directed unto a right Object, and attended with suitable instructive Ceremonies in the manner of their performance.
§ 1 THe principal Worship and Service of God, both in the Tabernacle and Temple, consisted in Offerings and Sacrifices. For these did directly represent, and in their general nature answered that which was the foundation of the Church, and all the Worship thereof; namely, the Sacrifice of the Son of God: and he is called the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, Joh. 1. v. 29. because he fulfilled and perfectly accomplished what was prefigured by the sacrifice of Lambs, and other creatures, from the foundation of the world. Neither were these Offerings and Sacrifices any thing, but means of Gods institution, for men to express by them their faith in the first promise. Nor were Sacrifices in general now first instituted, nor the kinds of them first appointed; but the most of them were observed upon Divine Revelation and command from the entrance of sin, and giving of the Promise; only they were rescued in the repetition of them unto Moses, from the superstition that was grown in their observance, and directed unto a right Object, and attended with suitable instructive Ceremonies in the manner of their performance.