A53696:1483
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.
1. Not receiving the Spirit by measure, Joh. 3.34. as they all did, he had given unto him altogether, a comprehension of the whole will and mind of God, as to what ever he would have revealed of himself, with the mystery of our salvation, and all that obedience and worship which in this world he would require of his Church. It pleased the Father, that in him all fullness should dwell, Col. 1.19. that is, of Grace and Truth, Joh. 1.17. not granting him a transient irradiation by them, but a permanency and constant abode of them with him in their fullness; all treasures of wisdom and knowledge being hid in him, Col. 2.3. as their home and proper abiding place; which made him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, Isa. 11.3. All the Mysteries of the counsel between the Father and the Eternal Word for the salvation of the Elect, with all the ways whereby it was to be accomplished through his own blood, were known unto him; as also were all the bounds, the whole extent of that Worship which his Church was to render unto God, with the assistance of the Spirit that was to be afforded unto them for that end and purpose. Hence the only reason why he did not at once reveal unto his Disciples the whole counsel of God, was not because all the treasures of it were not committed unto him, but because they could bear no other but that gradual communication of it, which he used towards them, Joh. 16.12. But he himself dwelt in the midst of those treasures, seeing to the bottom of them. All other Prophets, even Moses himself, receiving their revelation by transient irradiations of their minds, had no treasure of truth dwelling in them, but apprehended only that particular wherein they were enlightened; and that not clearly neither in its fullness and perfection, but in a measure of light, accommodated unto the Age wherein they lived, 1 Pet. 1.11, 12. Hence the Spirit is said to rest on him,