A53696:1361
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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This comparison (wherein also the proof of the positive worth and Excellency of the Gospel is included) omitting for weighty reasons (intimated by James, Acts 21.21. by himself, Acts 9.25. Chap. 22.19, 20, 21.) all ⟨image 171⟩Prefatory salutations he enters upon in the first verses of the Epistle; and being thereby occasioned to make mention of the Messiah, from whose Person and Office, the difference he was to insist upon did wholly arise; he spendeth the residue of the Chapter in proving the divine excellency of his Person, and the Eminency of his Office, as the only King, Priest, and Prophet of his Church; on all which the dignity of the Gospel, in the Profession whereof he exhorts them to persevere, doth depend.
He then that would come to a right understanding of this Epistle must always bear in mind, 1. To whom it was written, which were the Jews of the several sorts before mentioned: 2. To what End it was written; even to prevail with them to embrace the Gospel, and to persist in the Profession of it, without any mixture of Mosaical Observations: 3. On what Principles the Apostle deals with them in this Argument, which are no other for the most part then what were granted by the Jews of all sorts: 4. What Testimonies out of the Old Testament he insists on to prove his purpose, namely, such as were commonly received in the Judaical Church to belong unto the Messiah and his Office: 5. What he labours to instruct them in, as to the general use of all sorts amongst them, which is the nature and use of Mosaical Rites: 6. The main Argument he insists on for the ends before mentioned, which is the Excellency of the Gospel, the Worship instituted therein, and the Righteousness manifested thereby, upon the account of its Author and subject, the Principal Efficient Cause of its Worship, and only Procurer of the Righteousness exhibited in it, even Jesus Christ, the Messiah, Mediator, the eternal Son of God. Unless these things are well borne in mind, and the case of the Jews particularly heeded, our Exposition will it may be seem oft times to go out of the way, though it constantly pursue the design and scope of the Apostle.