A53696:1347
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 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.
1. The first of these concerns the Persons whose instruction and edification in the Faith is here aymed 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 dayes were distributed into three sorts, or parties.
1. Some of them believing in Christ through the Gospel, were perfectly instructed in the Liberty given them from the Mosaical Law, with the foundation of that Liberty in its accomplishment in the Person, Office and Work of the Messiah, Acts 2.41, 42.
2. Some with their Profession of Faith in Christ as the Messiah promised, retained an opinion of the necessary observation of Mosaical Rites; and these also were of two sorts.