A53696:1498
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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4. The whole Revelation and Dispensation of the will of God in and by the Word, is (as was said) eminently appropriated unto the Father. Eternal life (the counsel, the purpose, ways, means, and procurer of it) was with the Father, and was manifested to us by the word of truth, 1 Joh. 1.1, 2. And it is the Father, that is, his will, mind, purpose, grace, love, that the Son declares, Joh. 1.18. in which work he speaks nothing, but what he heard from, and was taught by the Father, Joh. 8.28. And thence he says, the doctrine is not mine, (that is, principally and originally) but his that sent me, Joh. 7.16. And the Gospel is called the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, 1 Tim. 1.11. which is a periphrasis of the Person of the Father, who is the Father of glory, Ephes. 1.17. And we might also declare, that the great work of making this Gospel effectual on the minds of men, doth peculiarly belong unto the Father, which he accomplisheth by his Spirit, 2 Cor. 3.18. c. 4.6. But that is not our present business. Thus the Revelation of events that should befall the Church to the end of the world, that Christ signified by his Angel unto John, was first given him of the Father, Revel. 1.1. And therefore though all declarations of God and his will, from the foundation of the world, ⟨p. 21⟩were made by the Son the second Person of the Trinity, and his Spirit speaking in the Prophets, 1 Pet. 1.11, 12, 13. yet as it was not by him immediately, no more was it as absolutely so, but as the great Angel and Messenger of the Covenant, by the will and appointment of the Father. And therefore the very Dispensers of the Gospel are said, [Greek or Hebrew], to treat as Ambassadors about the business of Christ with men in the name of God the Father; [Greek or Hebrew], saith the Apostle; as if God the Father exhorted in and by us,