A53696:1530
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.
I. [Greek or Hebrew], whom; that is, the Son, in whom the Father spake unto us; and as such, 1as the Revealer of the Gospel, [Greek or Hebrew], God and Man. The Son as God hath a natural dominion over all. To this he can be no more appointed, than he can be to be God. On what account he hath his Divine Nature, on the same he hath all the Attributes and Perfections of it, with all things that necessarily on any supposition attend it; as supreme Dominion doth. Nor doth this denotation of him respect merely the Humane Nature: for although the Lord Christ performed all the Acts of his Mediatory Office, in, and by the Humane Nature, yet he did them not as Man, but as God and Man in one Person, Joh. 1.14. Acts 20.20. And therefore unto him, as such, do the Privileges belong that he is vested with on the account of his being Mediator. Nothing indeed can be added unto him as God ▪ but there may be to him who is God, in respect of his condescension to discharge an Office in an other Nature which he did assume. And this salves the Paralogism of Felbinger on this place; which is that wherewith the Jews and Socinians perpetually intangle themselves. Deus altissimus non potest salvâ majestate suâ ab aliquo haeres constitutus esse. Filius Dei à Deo est haeres omnium constitutus, ergo Filius Dei non est Deus altissimus. God is called [Greek or Hebrew] the High, or most High God, with reference to his Sovereign and Supreme exaltation over all his creatures, as the next words in the place where that Title is given unto him do declare, [Greek or Hebrew] Possessor of heaven and earth, Gen. 14.19. He is not termed Deus altissimus, the most high God, as though there were another Deus altus, an high God that is not the Altissimus, which is the sense of the Socinians. This one D•us altissimus, most high God, absolutely in respect of his Divine Nature, cannot be appointed an Heir by any other. But he who is so this High God, as to be the eternal Son of the Father, and made Man, may in respect of the Office, which in the nature of Man he undertook to discharge, by his Father be made Heir of all.