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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.
Origen, Eusebius, and Hierom in the places forecited, mention a report concerning some § 7 who ascribed this Epistle unto Clemens Romanus. None of them give any Countenance unto it, or intimate any Grounds of that supposition; only Hierom affirms that there is some Similitude between the Style of this Epistle, and that of Clemens, which occasioned the suspicion of his Translating of it, whereof afterwards. Erasmus hath since taken up that Report, and seems to give credit unto it,1 but hath not contributed any thing of Reason or Testimony unto its Confirmation. A Worthy Holy Man was this Clemens no ⟨p. 28⟩doubt, and Bishop of the Church at Rome. But none of the Ancients of any Learning or Judgement, ever laid weight on this Conjecture. For what had he who was a Convert from among the Gentiles to do with the Churches of the Hebrews, what Authority had he to interpose himself in that which was their peculiar concernment? Whence may it appear, that he had that Skill in the Nature Use and End of Mosaical Rites and Institutions, which the Writer of this Epistle discovers in himself? Neither doth that Epistle of his to the Church of Corinth which is yet extant, though excellent in its kind, permit us to think that he wrote by Divine Inspiration. Besides the Author of this Epistle had a desire and purpose to go to the Hebrews, chap. 13.22. Yea, he desires to be restored unto them as one that had been with them before. But as it doth not appear that this Clemens was ever in Palestine, so what Reason he should have to leave his own charge now to go thither, no man can imagine. And to end this needless Debate, in that Epistle which was truly his own, he makes use of the Words and Authority of this, as Eusebius long since observed.
Origen, Eusebius, and Hierom in the places forecited, mention a report concerning some § 7 who ascribed this Epistle unto Clemens Romanus. None of them give any Countenance unto it, or intimate any Grounds of that supposition; only Hierom affirms that there is some Similitude between the Style of this Epistle, and that of Clemens, which occasioned the suspition of his Translating of it, whereof afterwards. Erasmus hath since taken up that Report, and seems to give credit unto it,1