A53696:1478
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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7. Besides this furniture with habitual Grace for the performance of all holy obedience unto God, as a man made under the Law, there was a peculiar endowment with the Spirit without and beyond the bounds of all comprehensible measures that he was to receive as the great Prophet of the Church, in whom the Father would speak and give out the last Revelation of himself. This communication of the Spirit unto him, was the foundation of his sufficiency for the discharge of his Prophetical Office, Isa. 11.2, 3. Chap. 48.16. Chap. 61.1, 2, 3. Dan. 9.24. As to the reality and being of this Gift of the Spirit, he received it from the womb; whence in his infancy he was said to be [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 2.40. filled with wisdom, wherewith he confuted the Doctors to amazement, v. 47. And with his years were these Gifts increased in him, [Greek or Hebrew], he went forwards in wisdom and stature and favour, v. 52. But the full communication of this Spirit with special reference unto the discharge of his public Office, with the visible pledge of it in the Holy Ghost descending on him in the shape of a Dove, he was made partaker of in his baptism, Matth. 3.16. when also he received his first public Testimony from Heaven, v. 17. which when again repeated, received the additional command of hearing him, Matth. 17.5. designing the Prophet that was to be heard on pain of utter extermination, Deut. 18.18, 19. And therefore he was thereupon said to be [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 4.1. full of the Holy Ghost, and sealed to this work by the sign foretold of God, Joh. 1.33.
7. Besides this furniture with habitual Grace for the performance of all holy obedience unto God, as a man made under the Law, there was a peculiar endowment with the Spirit without and beyond the bounds of all comprehensible measures that he was to receive as the great Prophet of the Church, in whom the Father would speak and give out the last Revelation of himself. This communication of the Spirit unto him, was the foundation of his sufficiency for the discharge of his Prophetical Office,