A53696:1525
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.
IV. We may see hence the absolute Perfection of the Revelation of the will of God by Christ and his Apostles, as to every end and purpose what ever, for which God ever did, or ever will in this world reveal himself, or his mind and will.
For as this was the last way and means that God ever designed for the discovery of himself, as to the worship and obedience which he requires, so the Person by whom he accomplished this work makes it indispensably necessary, that it be also absolutely perfect; from which nothing can be taken, to which nothing must be added, under the penalty of the extermination threatened to him that will not attend to the voice of that Prophet.
For as this was the last way and means that God ever designed for the discovery of himself, as to the worship and obedience which he requires, so the Person by whom he accomplished this work makes it indispensably necessary, that it be also absolutely perfect; from which nothing can be taken, to which nothing must be added, under the penalty of the extermination threatned to him that will not attend to the voice of that Prophet.
Return we now again unto the words of our Apostle. Having declared the Son to be the immediate Revealer of the Gospel; in pursuit of his design, he proceeds to declare his Glory and Excellency, both that which he had in himself antecedent to his susception of the Office of Mediator, and what he received upon his in-vestiture therewith.