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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.
§ 21 Amongst the Arguments usually insisted on to prove this Epistle to have been written by St. Paul, the Testimony given unto it by St. Peter, deserves Consideration in the first place, and is indeed of it self sufficient to determine the Enquiry about it. His Words to this purpose, Epist. 2. Chap. 3. v. 15, 16. are; And account that the Long-suffering of our Lord is Salvation, even as our beloved Brother Paul also according unto the Wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; as also in all his Epistles speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures unto their own destruction. To clear this Testimony, some few things must be observed in it, and concerning it. As (1.) That St. Peter wrote this Second Epistle unto the same Persons, that is, the same Churches and People to whom he wrote his First. This (to omit other Evidences of it) himself testifies, Chap. 3.1. This Second Epistle, Beloved I now write unto you; it was not only absolutely his Second Epistle, but the Second which he wrote to the same Persons; handling in both the same general Argument, as himself in the next words affirms. (2.) That his First Epistle was written unto the Jews or Hebrews in the Asian Dispersion. [Greek or Hebrew], &c. to the Elect Strangers of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Chap. 1.1. that is the [Greek or Hebrew], as St. James styles the same Persons, Chap. 1.1. the twelve Tribes, or Hebrews of the twelve Tribes of Israel in their Dispersion. These [Greek or Hebrew], or [Greek or Hebrew], are those whom the Jews of Jerusalem called the [Greek or Hebrew], John 7.35. the Dispersion, or those of their Nation, that were dispersed among the Gentiles; Those especially they intend in the Greek Empire. These they called [Greek or Hebrew] the dispersion or scattering of Israel, when they were sifted amongst all Nations, like the sifting of a Sieve, Amos 9.9. Psal. 147.2. they are called [Greek or Hebrew], which the LXX. according to the Phrase in their days render [Greek or Hebrew], the dispersions, or those scattered abroad of Israel, ⟨p. 35⟩as Isaiah calls them, [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], Chap. 27. v. 13. So that there is no question but that these were they whom St.