A53696:1305
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.
There are reckoned up eighteen times wherein this kind of Offering was to be made § 23 by express Institution; the annumeration whereof, belongs not unto us in this place. Nine of them refer unto particular occasions and emergencies, the other nine had their fixed seasons, occurring daily, monthly, or annually. Only we may observe that of this kind of Offering was the [Greek or Hebrew], the juge sacrificium, or continual Sacrifice which was offered Morning and Evening, with whose final, removal, or taking away, the Church and Worship of the Jews utterly ceased, Dan. 9.27. And as it had a precise command, for its being offered Morning and Evening continually, so in the constant acknowledgement of God therein, in the vicissitudes of Night and Day there was such a suitableness to the Light and Law of Nature in it, that it prevailed among the Heathen themselves in their Idolatrous Services; witness that of Hesiod,
There are reckoned up eighteen times wherein this kind of Offering was to be made § 23 by express Institution; the annumeration whereof, belongs not unto us in this place. Nine of them refer unto particular occasions and emergencies, the other nine had their fixed seasons, occurring daily, monethly, or annually. Only we may observe that of this kind of Offering was the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the juge sacrificium, or continual Sacrifice which was offered Morning and Evening, with whose final, removal, or taking away, the Church and Worship of the Jews utterly ceased, Dan. 9.27. And as it had a precise command, for its being offered Morning and Evening continually, so in the constant acknowledgement of God therein, in the vicislitudes of Night and Day there was such a suitableness to the Light and Law of Nature in it, that it prevailed among the Heathen themselves in their Idolatrous Services; witness that of Hesiod,
[Greek or Hebrew] [Greek or Hebrew]. Let Offerings and Sacrifices burn, At Evening, and at Sacred Lights return.