A53696:1346
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.
THE general concernments of this Epistle have all of them been discussed and cleared in the preceding Exercitations and Discourses. The things and matters confirmed in them, we therefore here suppose, and take for granted. And they are such some of them, as without a Demonstration whereof, a genuine and perspicuous Declaration of the Design of the Author, and sense of the Epistle cannot be well founded or carried on. Unto them therefore we must remit the Reader who desires to peruse the ensuing Exposition with profit and advantage. But yet because the manner of the handling of things in those Discourses, may not be so suited unto the minds of all who would willingly enquire into the Exposition its self, I shall here make an entrance into it, by laying down some such General Principles and Circumstances of the Epistle, as may give a competent prospect into the design and Argument of the Apostle, in the whole thereof.
THE general concernments of this Epistle have all of them been discussed and cleared in the preceding Exercitations and Discourses. The things and matters confirmed in them, we therefore here suppose, and take for granted. And they are such some of them, as without a Demonstration whereof, a genuine and perspicuous Declaration of the Design of the Author, and sense of the Epistle cannot be well founded or carried on. Ʋnto them therefore we must remit the Reader who desires to peruse the ensuing Exposition with profit and advantage. But yet because the manner of the handling of things in those Discourses, may not be so suited unto the minds of all who would willingly enquire into the Exposition its self, I shall here make an entrance into it, by laying down some such General Principles and Circumstances of the Epistle, as may give a competent prospect into the design and Argument of the Apostle, in the whole thereof.
1. The first of these concerns the Persons whose instruction and edification in the Faith is here aimed at: These in general were the Hebrews, the Posterity of Abraham, and the only Church of God before the promulgation of the Gospel; who in those days were distributed into three sorts, or parties.