A53696:1356
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
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IV. He takes it for granted in the whole Epistle, that the Judaical Church-State did yet continue, and that the Worship of it was not yet disallowed of God; suitably to what was before declared concerning his own and the other Apostles practice. Had that Church-State been utterly abolished, all observation of Mosaical rites, which were the Worship of that Church as such, had been utterly unlawful, as now it is. Neither did the determination recorded Acts 15. abolish them as some suppose, but only free the Gentiles from their observance. Their free use was yet permitted unto the Jews. Acts 21.20, 22, 25, 26. Chap.27.9. and practised by Paul in particular, in his Nazaretical Vow, Acts 21.26. Which was attended with a Sacrifice, Numb. 6.13. ⟨image 171⟩Nor was Mosaical Worship utterly to cease, so as to have no acceptance with God until the final ruin of that church, foretold by our Saviour himself, Mat. 24. by Peter, 2 Ep. 3. by James also, Chap. 5.6, 7, 8, 9. and by our Apostle in this Epistle, Chap. 10.37. Chap. 12.25, 26, 27. was accomplished.
IV. He takes it for granted in the whole Epistle, that the Judaical Church-State did yet continue, and that the Worship of it was not yet disallowed of God; suitably to what was before declared concerning his own and the other Apostles practice. Had that Church-State been utterly abolished, all observation of Mosaical rites, which were the Worship of that Church as such, had been utterly unlawfull, as now it is. Neither did the determination recorded Acts 15. abolish them as some suppose, but only free the Gentiles from their observance. Their free use was yet permitted unto the Jews. Acts 21.20, 22, 25, 26. Chap.27.9. and practised by Paul in particular, in his Nazaretical Vow,