A53696:1463
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.
There is the same mistake in the last difference assigned. Moses did not so receive the Spirit of Prophecy, as that he could at his own pleasure reveal those things which were not discoverable but by that Spirit; or speak out the mind of God infallibly in any thing for the use of the Church without actual inspiration as to that particular, which is evident from the mistake that he was under as to the manner of his Government which he rectified by the advise of Jethro, Exod. 18.19. And likewise in other Instances did he wait for particular Answers from God, Numb. 15.34. To have a comprehension at once of the whole Will of God concerning the obedience and salvation of the Church, was a Privilege reserved for him who in all things was to have the preeminence. And it seems that Maimonides himself in his exaltation of Moses excepted the Messiah. For whereas in the Hebrew and Latin Copies of More Nebuch. part. 2. cap. 45. there are these words, [Greek or Hebrew], which Buxtorf. renders, est gradus hic etiam praestantissimorum consiliariorum Israelis, this is the degree (in Prophecy) of the Counsellors of Israel; the Arabic or Original hath; And this also is the degree of the Messiah of Israel, who goeth before, or excelleth all others, that is, in point of Prophecy.
There is the same mistake in the last difference assigned. Moses did not so receive the Spirit of Prophecy, as that he could at his own pleasure reveal those things which were not discoverable but by that Spirit; or speak out the mind of God infallibly in any thing for the use of the Church without actual inspiration as to that particular, which is evident from the mistake that he was under as to the manner of his Government which he rectified by the advise of Jethro, Exod. 18.19. And likewise in other Instances did he wait for particular Answers from God, Numb. 15.34. To have a comprehension at once of the whole Will of God concerning the obedience and salvation of the Church, was a Priviledge reserved for him who in all things was to have the preheminence. And it seems that Maimonides himself in his exaltation of Moses excepted the Messiah. For whereas in the Hebrew and Latin Copies of More Nebuch. part. 2. cap. 45. there are these words, , which Buxtorf. renders, est gradus hic etiam praestantissimorum consiliariorum Israelis, this is the degree (in Prophecy) of the Counsellors of Israel; the Arabick or Original hath; And this also is the degree of the Messiah of Israel, who goeth before, or excelleth all others, that is, in point of Prophecy.