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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.
Now it is plain in this Testimony asserted, That St. Paul wrote a peculiar Epistle unto § 22 them, unto whom St. Peter wrote his, that is to the Hebrews; he hath written unto you, as also in all his Epistles: that is, in all his other Epistles. Besides his other Epistles to other Churches and Persons, he hath also written one unto you. So that if St. Peters Testimony may be received, St. Paul undoubtedly wrote an Epistle unto the Hebrews. But this may be, say some, another Epistle, and not this we treat on; particularly that to the Galatians, which treateth about Judaical Customs and Worship. But this Epistle mentioned by St. Peter, was written particularly unto the Hebrews in distinction from the Gentiles: This to the Galatians is written peculiarly to the Gentiles in opposition to the Jews; so that a more unhappy instance could not possibly have been fixed upon. Besides he treats not in it of the things here mentioned by St. Peter, which are indeed the main Subject of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Now it is plain in this Testimony asserted, That St. Paul wrote a peculiar Epistle unto § 22 them, unto whom St. Peter wrote his, that is to the Hebrews; he hath written unto you, as also in all his Epistles: that is, in all his other Epistles. Besides his other Epistles to other Churches and Persons, he hath also written one unto you. So that if St. Peters Testimony may be received, St. Paul undoubtedly wrote an Epistle unto the Hebrews. But this may be, say some, another Epistle, and not this we treat on; particularly that to the Galatians, which treateth about Judaical Customs and Worship. But this Epistle mentioned by St. Peter, was written particularly unto the Hebrews in distinction from the Gentiles: This to the Galatians is written peculiarly to the Gentiles in opposition to the Jewes; so that a more unhappy instance could not possibly have been fixed upon. Besides he treats not in it of the things here mentioned by St. Peter, which are indeed the main Subject of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
But, say others, Paul indeed might write an Epistle to the Hebrews, which may be lost, and this that we have, might be written by some other: But whence this Answer should proceed, but from a resolution [Greek or Hebrew], against Light and Conviction, I know not. May we give place to such rash and presumptuous Conjectures, we shall quickly have nothing left entire or stable. For why may not another as well say, it is true, Moses wrote Five Books, but they are lost, and these that we have under his Name, were written by another: It is not surely one jot less intolerable for any one, without ground, proof, or Testimony, to affirm that the Church hath lost an Epistle written to the Hebrews by St. Paul, and taken up one in the room thereof, written by no man knoweth whom. This is not to deal with that Holy Reverence in the things of God, which becomes us.