A53696:1453
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.
To confirm themselves in this prejudicate apprehension, they assign a fourfold preheminency to the Prophecy of Moses above that of other Prophets; and these are insisted on by the same Maimonides in his explication of Cap. 10. Tractat. Sanedr. and by sundry others of them.
1. The first they fix on is this; that God never spake to any Prophet immediately, but only to Moses; to him he spake without Angelical Mediation. For so he affirms that he spake to him, [Greek or Hebrew], mouth to mouth, Numb. 12.13.
1. The first they fix on is this; that God never spake to any Prophet immediately, but only to Moses; to him he spake without Angelical Mediation. For so he affirms that he spake to him, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, mouth to mouth, Numb. 12.13.
2. All other Prophets, they say, received their visions either in their sleep, or presently after their sleep, but Moses in the day time standing between the Cherubims, Exod. 29.52. And,