A53696:1459
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.
It must be granted, that Moses being the Law-giver and first Revealer of all that Worship in the observation whereof the Judaical Church State •nd Privilege of that people did consist, had the preheminency above the succeeding Prophets, whose Ministry chiefly tended to instruct the people in the nature, and keep them to the observation of his Institutions. But that all these things by them insisted on, were peculiar to him, it doth not appear; nor if it did so, are the most of them, of any great weight or importance.
It must be granted, that Moses being the Law-giver and first Revealer of all that Worship in the observation whereof the Judaical Church State •nd Priviledge of that people did consist, had the preheminency above the succeeding Prophets, whose Ministry chiefly tended to instruct the people in the nature, and keep them to the observation of his Institutions. But that all these things by them insisted on, were peculiar to him, it doth not appear; nor if it did so, are the most of them, of any great weight or importance.
The first is granted; and a signal Privilege it was; God spake unto him ⟨p. 15⟩[Greek or Hebrew], face to face, Exod. 33.11. and [Greek or Hebrew], mouth to mouth, Numb. 12.13. and this is mentioned as that which was peculiar to him above the Prophets which should succeed him in the Ministry of that Church. But that Moses saw the essence of God, which the Jews contend from those words, is expressly denied in the Text it self. For even then when it was said, that God spake to him face to face, it is also affirmed that he did not, nor could see the face of God, Exod. 33.20. See