A53696:1439
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.
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.
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, comprizing 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.
2. God spake in the Prophets, [Greek or Hebrew], after divers sorts or manners. 1Now this respects either the various ways of Gods revealing himself to the Prophets, by Dreams, Visions, Inspirations, Voices, Angels, every way with an equal evidence of their being from God; or the ways of his dealing with the Fathers by the Prophets, by promises, threats, gradual discoveries of his Will, special Messages and Prophecies, public Sermons and the like. The latter, or the various ways of the Prophets delivering their Messages to the People from God is principally intended, though the former be not excluded, it being that, from whence this latter variety did principally arise and flow.