A53696:1438
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.
And this discovers the obstinacy of the Modern Jews, who from the days of Maimonides, who dyed about the year of our Lord 1104. have made it one of the fundamental Articles of their Religion, which they have inserted in their Prayer Books, that the Law of Moses is never to be changed, and that God will never give them any other Law, or Rule of Worship: and as they further ground that Article in Ezrim Vearba, printed in the end of Bomberg's Bibles, they affirm, that nothing can be added unto it, nothing taken away from it, no alteration in its obligation be admitted; which is directly contrary both to the Truth, and to the Confession of all their Predecessors, who looked for the Messiah, as we shall afterwards declare.
And this discovers the obstinacy of the Modern Jews, who from the dayes of Maimonides, who dyed about the year of our Lord 1104. have made it one of the fundamental Articles of their Religion, which they have inserted in their Prayer Books, that the Law of Moses is never to be changed, and that God will never give them any other Law, or Rule of Worship: and as they further ground that Article in Ezrim Vearba, printed in the end of Bombergs Bibles, they affirm, that nothing can be added unto it, nothing taken away from it, no alteration in its obligation be admitted; which is directly contrary both to the Truth, and to the Confession of all their Predecessors, who looked for the Messiah, as we shall afterwards declare.
In Opposition to this Gradual Revelation of the mind of God under the Old Testament, the Apostle intimates that now by Jesus the Messiah, the Lord hath at once begun and finished the whole Revelation of his Will according to their own hopes and expectation. So Jude 3. The Faith was once delivered unto the Saints: not in one day, not in one Sermon; or by one Person, but at one season, or under one dispensation, comprising all the time from the entrance of the Lord Christ upon his Ministry, and the closing of the Canon of Scripture, which period was now at hand. This Season being once past and finished, no new Revelation is to be expected to the end of the world. Nothing shall be added unto, nor altered in the Worship of God any more. God will not do it, men that attempt it, do it on the price of their souls.