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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.
2. There is also Love. In the Economy of the blessed Trinity about the work of our Salvation, that which is eminently and in an especial manner ascribed unto the Father, is Love, as hath been at large elsewhere showed, 1 Joh. 4.9, 10, 16. God, that is, the Father saith he, is Love. And how he exerts that property of his nature in the work of our Salvation by Christ, he there shows at large: So Joh.. 3.16. Rom. 5.7, 8. To be Love, full of Love, to be the especial spring of all fruits of Love, is peculiar to him as the Father. And from Love it is that he makes the Revelation of his Will whereof we speak, Deut. 7.8. c. 33.3. Psal. 147.19, 20. 2 Cor. 5.18, 19. It was out of infinite Love, mercy▪ and compassion, that God would at all reveal his Mind and Will unto sinners. He might for ever have locked up the treasures of his Wisdom and Prudence, wherein he abounds towards us in his word, in his own eternal breast. He might have left all the Sons of men unto that woeful darkness, whereunto by Sin they had cast themselves, and kept them under the chains and power of it, with the Angels that sinned before them, unto the judgement of the great d•y. But it was from infinite Love that he made this condescension to reveal himself and his Will unto us. This mixture of Authority and Love, which is the spring of the Revelation of the Will of God unto us, requires all readiness, willingness and cheerfulness in the receipt of it, and submission unto it; Besides these also,
2. There is also Love. In the Oeconomy of the blessed Trinity about the work of our Salvation, that which is eminently and in an especial manner ascribed unto the Father, is Love, as hath been at large elsewhere shewed, 1 Joh. 4.9, 10, 16