A53696:1358
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 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.
The Law of Moses then was not actually abrogated by Christ, who observed the rules of it in the dayes 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or uselesness; 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.
And this also God ordered in his infinite wisdom, that their Temple, City, and Nation, and so consequently their whole Church-State should be utterly wasted by the Pagan Romans, before the power of the Empire came into the hands of men professing the name of Christ; who could neither well have suffered their Temple to stand as by them abused, nor yet have destroyed it, without hardening them in their impenitency and unbelief.
And this also God ordered in his infinite wisdom, that their Temple, City, and Nation, and so consequently their whole Church-State should be utterly wasted by the Pagan Romans, before the power of the Empire came into the hands of men professing the name of Christ; who could neither well have suffered their Temple to stand as by them abused, nor yet have destroyed it, without hardning them in their impenitency and unbelief.