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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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From all these observations we may evidently perceive wherein the force of the Apostles Argument doth lie, which he insists upon in this very entrance of his Discourse: rather insinuating it from their own Principles, than openly pressing them with its reason, which he doth afterwards. They acknowledged that the Messiah was to come, that he was to be in a special manner the Son of God, (as we shall show;) that in him God would ultimately reveal his mind and will unto them, and that this Revelation on many accounts would be far more excellent, than that of old made to and by Moses; which that it was all accomplished in the ministry of Jesus Christ, and that unto themselves in the latter days of their Church, according to what was long before fore-told, he asserts and proves; whence it was easy for them to gather, what a necessity of adhering to his Doctrine and Institutions, notwithstanding any contrary pleas or arguings, was incumbent on them.
From all these observations we may evidently perceive wherein the force of the Apostles Argument doth lie, which he insists upon in this very entrance of his Discourse: rather insinuating it from their own Principles, than openly pressing them with its reason, which he doth afterwards. They acknowledged that the Messiah was to come, that he was to be in a special manner the Son of God, (as we shall shew;) that in him God would ultimately reveal his mind and will unto them, and that this Revelation on many accounts would be far more excellent, than that of old made to and by Moses; which that it was all accomplished in the ministery of Jesus Christ, and that unto themselves in the latter days of their Church, according to what was long before fore-told, he asserts and proves; whence it was easie for them to gather, what a necessity of adhereing to his Doctrine and Institutions, notwithstanding any contrary pleas or arguings, was incumbent on them.
But moreover the Apostle in these words hath opened the spring, from whence all his ensuing Arguments do flow; in fixing on him who brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel. And from thence takes occasion to enter upon the Dogmatical part of the Epistle, in the description of the Person of Christ, the Son of God, and his Excellency, in whom God spake unto them, that they might consider with whom they had to do; wherein he proceeds to the end of this Chapter.