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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
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§ 17 Some of the Ancients, and principally Theodoret insist upon the peculiar allotment of his Work unto him among the Gentiles. Paul was the Apostle of the Gentiles, in an especial manner; and if in Writing unto the Hebrews he had prefixed his name unto his Epistle, he might have seemed to transgress the Line of his Allotment. And if it be not certain that the Apostles by common consent cast their Work into distinct portions, which they peculiarly attended unto; as the Ancients generally concur that they did, (and there was not reason wanting why they should do so) yet it is, that there was a special Convention and agreement between James, Peter, and John on the one side, and Paul and Barnabas on the other, that they should attend the Ministry of the Circumcision, and these of the Gentiles. Hence Paul finding it necessary for him to write unto the Hebrews, would not prefix his name with an Apostolical Salutation unto his Epistle, that he might not seem to have invaded the Province of others, or transgressed the Line of his Allotment. But I must acknowledge that notwithstanding the weight laid upon it by Theodoret and some others, this reason seems not unto me cogent unto the end for which it is produced. For (1.) The Commission given by the Lord Christ unto his Apostles, was Catholic, and had no bounds but that of the whole Creation of God capable of instruction, Matth. 28.19. Mark 16.15. and that Commission which was given unto them all in general, was given unto every one in particular: and made him in solidum possessor of all the Right and Authority conveyed by it. Neither could any following arbitrary agreement pitched on for convenience, and the facilitating of their Work, abridge any of them from exerting their Authority, and exercising their Duty towards any of the Sons of Men, as occasion did require.
§ 17 Some of the Antients, and principally Theodoret insist upon the peculiar allotment of his Work unto him among the Gentiles. Paul was the Apostle of the Gentiles, in an especial manner; and if in Writing unto the Hebrews he had prefixed his name unto his Epistle, he might have seemed to transgress the Line of his Allotment. And if it be not certain that the Apostles by common consent cast their Work into distinct portions, which they peculiarly attended unto; as the Antients generally concurr that they did, (and there was not reason wanting why they should do so) yet it is, that there was a special Convention and agreement between James, Peter, and John on the one side, and Paul and Barnabas on the other, that they should attend the Ministry of the Circumcision, and these of the Gentiles. Hence Paul finding it necessary for him to write unto the Hebrews, would not prefix his name with an Apostolical Salutation unto his Epistle, that he might not seem to have invaded the Province of others, or transgressed the Line of his Allotment. But I must acknowledge that notwithstanding the weight laid upon it by Theodoret and some others, this reason seems not unto me cogent unto the end for which it is produced. For (1.) The Commission given by the Lord Christ unto his Apostles, was Catholick, and had no bounds but that of the whole Creation of God capable of instruction,