A53696:1487
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.
In these, and sundry other things of the like importance, had the Fathers speaking in the Son, the preeminence above his speaking in Moses and the Prophets; for which cause the Apostle placeth this consideration in the head of his Reasonings and Arguments, for attendance unto, and observation of the things revealed by him. For even all these things have influence into his present Argument, though the main stress of it be laid on the excellency of his Person, of which at large afterwards.
In these, and sundry other things of the like importance, had the Fathers speaking in the Son, the preheminence above his speaking in Moses and the Prophets; for which cause the Apostle placeth this consideration in the head of his Reasonings and Arguments, for attendance unto, and observation of the things revealed by him. For even all these things have influence into his present Argument, though the main stress of it be laid on the excellency of his Person, of which at large afterwards.
6. We must yet further observe, that the Jews, with whom the Apostle had to do, ⟨p. 19⟩had all of them an expectation of a new signal and final Revelation of the will of God, to be made by the Messiah in the last days, that is of their Church state, and not as they now fondly imagine, of the world. Some of them indeed imagined that great Prophet promised Deut. 18. to have been one distinct from the Messiah, Joh. 1.21. but the general expectation of the Church for the full Revelation of the will of God, was upon the Messiah, Joh. 4.25. Of the same mind were their more ancient Doctors, that retained any thing of the tradition of their Fathers; asserting, that the Law of Moses was alterable by the Messiah, and that in some things it should be so. Maimonides is the leader in the opinion of the eternity of the Law: whose Arguments are answered by the Author of Sepher Ikkarim, lib. 3. cap. 13. and some of them by Nachmanides. Hence it is laid down as a Principle in Neve shalom, [Greek or Hebrew] Messiah the King shall be exalted above Abraham, be high above Moses, yea, and the ministering Angels. And it is for the excellency of the Revelation made by him, that he is so exalted above Moses. Whence Maimonides himself acknowledgeth, Tractat. de Regibus, that at the coming of the Messiah, [Greek or Hebrew] hidden and deep things (i. e. of the counsel of God) shall be revealed or laid open unto all. And this persuasion they built on the Promise of a new Covenant to be made with them, not like the Covenant made with their fathers,