A53696:1307
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 so at Rome, the Pinarii and Potitii sacrificed to Hercules, in Ara Maxima, Morning and Evening, as Livy, Plutarch, and Dionysius testify. The Custom also of Feasts at this Sacrifice, to testify mutual Love and Peace amongst men, was common with the Jews unto the Gentiles. Thus when Jethro, Moses his Father in Law offered a Burnt-Offering and Sacrifices, Aaron and all the Elders of Israel came to eat Bread with him before God, Exod. 18.12. And so also in the Sacrifices that Agamemnon offered in Homer Iliad B. he called the Ancients and Princes of the Graecians to a Banquet at it with him; as did Nestor likewise with those about him, at his great Sacrifice. Od•ss. G.
And so at Rome, the Pinarii and Potitii sacrificed to Hercules, in Ara Maxima, Morning and Evening, as Livy, Plutarch, and Dionysius testifie. The Custom also of Feasts at this Sacrifice, to testifie mutual Love and Peace amongst men, was common with the Jews unto the Gentiles. Thus when Jethro, Moses his Father in Law offered a Burnt-Offering and Sacrifices, Aaron and all the Elders of Israel came to eat Bread with him before God, Exod. 18.12. And so also in the Sacrifices that Agamemnon offered in Homer Iliad B. he called the Antients and Princes of the Graecians to a Banquet at it with him; as did Nestor likewise with those about him, at his great Sacrifice. Od•ss. G.
The next sort of Offerings that was regulated in the Law, was the [Greek or Hebrew], which as it denoted an especial kind of Sacrifice we have from the matter of it, rendered a Meat-Offering, Levit. 2.1. And this, as was said of the whole Burnt-Offering before, was not then first instituted and appointed, but only regulated and solemnly approved. For it had been observed from the beginning, and consisting in the fruits of the earth, had a great foundation in the Law of Nature. Thus Cain brought his [Greek or Hebrew] Mincha of the fruits of the earth to offer unto God,