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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.
3. To Ezra, with the Prophets that assisted in the Reformation of the Church after its return from Babylon, who in an especial manner, excited the people to an expectation of the coming of the Messiah.
These were the principal parts and degrees of the Revelation of the will of God from the foundation of the world until the coming of Christ in his fore-runner John the Baptist. And all this I have fully handled and unfolded in my Discourse of the rise, nature and progress of Scripture Divinity or Theology.
But as I showed before, if we attend unto the special intention of the Apostle, we must take in the date of these Revelations, and begin with that to Moses, adding to it those other subservient ones mentioned peculiar to the Judaical Church, which taught and confirmed the Worship that was established amongst them.
But as I shewed before, if we attend unto the special intention of the Apostle, we must take in the date of these Revelations, and begin with that to Moses, adding to it those other subservient ones mentioned peculiar to the Judaical Church, which taught and confirmed the Worship that was established amongst them.