A53696:1394
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.
Now God being here spoken of •n distinction from the Son expressly, and from the Holy Ghost by evident implication, it being He by whom he spake in the Prophets, that name is not taken [Greek or Hebrew] substantially, to denote primarily the Essence or being of the Deity, and each person as partaking in the same nature; but [Greek or Hebrew]; denoting primarily one certain Person, and the divine nature only as subsisting in that Person: This is the Person of the Father: as elsewhere the Person of the Son is so signified by that name, Acts 20.28. John 1.1, 2. Rom. 9.5. 1 Tim. 3.16. 1 John 3.16. Chap. 5.20. As also the Person of the Holy Spirit, Acts 5.3, 4. 1 Cor. 12.7, 11. Col. 2.2. So that God even the Father, by the way of eminency, was the peculiar Author of both Law and Gospel, of which afterwards. And this observation is made necessary from hence, even because he immediately assigns Divine Properties and Excellencies unto another Person, evidently distinguished from him whom he intends to denote by the name God in this place, which he could not do, did that name primarily express, as here used by him, the divine nature absolutely, but only as it is subsisting in the Person of the Father.
Now God being here spoken of •n distinction from the Son expresly, and from the Holy Ghost by evident implication, it being He by whom he spake in the Prophets, that name is not taken 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 substantially, to denote primarily the Essence or being of the Deity, and each person as partaking in the same nature; but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; denoting primarily one certain Person, and the divine nature only as subsisting in that Person: This is the Person of the Father: as elsewhere the Person of the Son is so signified by that name,