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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
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 his dealing with the Hebrews the case was far otherwise; They who believed amongst them, never changed the old foundation, or Church-State, grounded on the Scriptures, though they had a new addition of Privileges by their Faith in Christ Jesus, as the Messiah now exhibited. And therefore he deals not with them, as with those whose Faith was built absolutely on Apostolical Authority and Revelation, but upon the common Principles of the Old Testament, on which they still stood, and out of which Evangelical Faith was educed. Hence the beginning of the Epistle, wherein he ⟨p. 34⟩appeals to the Scripture as the foundation, that he intended to build upon, and the Authority which he would press them withal, supplies the Room of that intimation of his Apostolical Authority, which in other places he maketh use of. And it serves to the very same purpose. For as in those Epistles he proposeth his Apostolical Authority as the immediate reason of their Assent and Obedience; so in this he doth the Scriptures of the Old Testament. And this is the true and proper cause, that renders the prefixing of his Apostolical Authority, which his Name must necessarily accompany, needless, because useless, it being that which he intended not to engage in this business. And for himself, he sufficiently declares in the close of his Epistle who he was; for though some may imagine that he is not so certainly known unto us, from what he there says of himself, yet none can be so fond to doubt whether he were not thereby known to them to whom he wrote; so that neither hath this Objection in it any thing of real weight or moment.
In his dealing with the Hebrews the case was far otherwise; They who believed amongst them, never changed the old foundation, or Church-State, grounded on the Scriptures, though they had a new addition of Priviledges by their Faith in Christ Jesus, as the Messiah now exhibited. And therefore he deals not with them, as with those whose Faith was built absolutely on Apostolical Authority and Revelation, but upon the common Principles of the Old Testament, on which they still stood, and out of which Evangelical Faith was educed. Hence the beginning of the Epistle, wherein he ⟨p. 34⟩appeals to the Scripture as the foundation, that he intended to build upon, and the Authority which he would press them withal, supplies the Room of that intimation of his Apostolical Authority, which in other places he maketh use of. And it serves to the very same purpose. For as in those Epistles he proposeth his Apostolical Authority as the immediate reason of their Assent and Obedience; so in this he doth the Scriptures of the Old Testament. And this is the true and proper cause, that renders the prefixing of his Apostolical Authority, which his Name must necessarily accompany, needless, because useless, it being that which he intended not to ingage in this business. And for himself, he sufficiently declares in the close of his Epistle who he was; for though some may imagine that he is not so certainly known unto us, from what he there sayes of himself, yet none can be so fond to doubt whether he were not thereby known to them to whom he wrote; so that neither hath this Objection in it any thing of real weight or moment.