A53696:1395
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.
From this head of their Agreement, the Apostle proceeds to the instances of the difference that was between the Law and the Gospel, as to their Revelation from God; of which a little inverting the order of the words, we shall First consider that which concerns the Times of their giving out, sundry of the other instances being regulated thereby.
For the First, or the Revelation of the Will of God under the Old Testament it was, of old; God spake [Greek or Hebrew], formerly, or of old; Some space of time is denoted in this word, which had then received both its beginning and end: both which we may enquire after. Take the word absolutely, 1and it comprises the whole space of time from the giving out of the first Promise, unto that End which was put unto all Revelations of public use under the Old Testament. Take it as relating to the Jews, and the rise of the time expressed in it, is the giving of the Law by Moses in the Wilderness. And this is that which the Apostle hath respect unto. He had no contest with the Jews about the first Promise, and the service of God in the world built thereon; nor about their Privilege, as they were the Sons of Abraham; but only about their then present Church Privilege and claim by Moses Law. The proper date then and bound of this [Greek or Hebrew], of old, is from the giving out of Moses Law, and therein ⟨p. 4⟩the constitution of the Judaical Church and Worship, unto the close of public Prophecy in the days of Malachi. From thence to the days of John Baptist, God granted no extraordinary Revelation of his Will, as to the standing use of the whole Church. So that this dispensation of Gods speaking in the Prophets, continued for the space of twenty one Jubilees, or near eleven hundred years. That it had been now ceased for a long time, the Apostle intimates in this word; and that agreeably to the confessed Principles of the Jews, whereby also he confirmed his own of the coming of the Messiah, by the reviving of the gift of Prophecy, as was foretold,