A53696:1460
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.
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 John 1.17, 18. Both those expressions intend only that God revealed himself unto him in a more clear and familiar way than he had done unto other Prophets, or would do, whilst that administration continued. For although the things which he revealed to, and by other Prophets, were more clear▪ evident and open to the understanding of believers, than they were in the Revelation made to Moses, (they being intended as Expositions of it,) yet in the way of the Revelation its self, God dealt more clearly and familiarly with Moses, than with any other Prophet of that Church whatever.
The first is granted; and a signal Priviledge it was; God spake unto him ⟨p. 15⟩〈non-Latin alphabet〉, face to face, Exod. 33.11. and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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 expresly denyed 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,