A53696:1476
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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5. The Lord Christ discharged his Office and work of Revealing the Will of the Father, in and by his humane nature; that nature wherein he dwelt among us, Joh. 1.14. For although the Person of Christ, God and man was our Mediator, Acts 20.28. Joh. 1.14, 18. yet his humane nature was that wherein he discharged the duties of his Office, and the principium quod of all his mediatory actings, 1 Tim. 2.5.
6. This Humane Nature of Christ, as he was in it made of a woman made under the Law, Gal. 4.4. was from the instant of its Union with the Person of the Son of God, an holy thing, Luke 1.35. Holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and radically filled with all that perfection of habitual Grace and Wisdom, which was or could be necessary to the discharge of that whole duty which as a man he owed unto God, Luke 2.40, 49, 52. Joh. 8.46. 1 Pet. 2.22. But,
6. This Humane Nature of Christ, as he was in it made of a woman made under the Law, Gal. 4.4. was from the instant of its Ʋnion with the Person of the Son of God, an holy thing,