A53696:1414
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.
God having from the foundation of the world promised to bring forth the seed of the woman to work out the Redemption of his Elect in the Conquest of Satan, did in ⟨p. 7⟩the separation of Abraham from the rest of the world begin to make provision of a peculiar stock from whence it should spring. That this was the cause and end of his Call and Separation is evident from hence, that immediately thereupon God assures him that in his seed all the Kindreds of the earth should be blessed, Gen. 12.1, 2, 3. Chap. 22.18. which is all one as if he had expressly said unto him, for this cause have I chosen and called thee, that in thee, I might lay a foundation of bringing forth the promised seed, by whom the curse is to be taken away, and the blessing of everlasting life procured, as Gal. 3.13, 14. For this cause was his Posterity continued in a state of separation from the rest of the world, that he might seek an holy seed unto himself, Numb. 23.9. Mal. 2.15. For this cause did he raise them into a Civil, Regal, and Church-State, that he might in them type out, and prefigure the Offices and Benefits of the promised Messiah, who was to gather to himself the Nations that were to be blessed in the seed of Abraham, Gen. 49.10. Psal. 45. Hos. 3.5. Ezek. 34.23. And all their Sacrifices did but shadow out that great expiation of sin, which he was to make in his own Person; as hath been already proved.
God having from the foundation of the world promised to bring forth the seed of the woman to work out the Redemption of his Elect in the Conquest of Satan, did in ⟨p. 7⟩