A53696:1357
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.
Hence it is that our Apostle calls the times of the Gospel, the world to come, Chap. 2.5. Chap. 6.5. the name whereby the Jews denoted the State of the Church under the Messiah, proper unto it only whilst the legal administrations of Worship did continue. Thus as de facto he had showed respect unto the Person of the High Priest as one yet in lawful Office, Acts 23.5. So doctrinally he takes it for granted, that, that Office was still continued, Chap. 8.4, 5. with the whole worship of Moses institution, Chap. 13.11, 12. And this dispensation of Gods patience being the last trial of that Church, was continued in a proportion of time answerable to their abode in the Wilderness upon its first Erection; which our Apostle minds them of, Chap. 3. c. 4.
Hence it is that our Apostle calls the times of the Gospel, the world to come, Chap. 2.5. Chap. 6.5. the name whereby the Jews denoted the State of the Church under the Messiah, proper unto it only whilest the legal administrations of Worship did continue. Thus as de facto he had shewed respect unto the Person of the High Priest as one yet in lawful Office, Acts 23.5. So doctrinally he takes it for granted, that, that Office was still continued, Chap. 8.4, 5. with the whole worship of Moses institution, Chap. 13.11, 12. And this dispensation of Gods patience being the last tryal of that Church, was continued in a proportion of time answerable to their abode in the Wilderness upon its first Erection; which our Apostle minds them of, Chap. 3. c. 4.
The Law of Moses then was not actually abrogated by Christ, who observed the rules of it in the days of his flesh; nor by the Apostles, who seldom used their liberty from it, leaving the use of it to the Jews still; but having done its work, whereunto it was designed, and its obligation Expiring, ending, and being removed, or taken away in the death and resurrection of Christ, and promulgation of the Gospel that ensued thereupon, which doctrinally declared its [Greek or Hebrew], or uselessness; God in his Providence put an end unto it, as to its observation, in the utter and irrecoverable overthrow of the Temple, the place designed for the solemn exercise of its Worship; so did it decay, wax old, and vanish away, Chap. 8.13.