A53696:156
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.
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.
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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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.
St. Peter declares that St. Paul in that Epistle which he wrote unto the Hebrews, had § 23 declared the Long-suffering of God, whereof he had minded them, to be salvation. We must see what was this Long-suffering of God, how it was Salvation, and how Paul had manifested it so to be. The Long-sufferance, Patience, or Forbearance of God, is either absolute toward man in general, or special in reference unto some sort of Men; or some kind of Sins or Provocations that are amongst them. The first of these is not that which is here intended; Nor was there any reason why St. Peter should direct the Jews to the Epistles of St. Paul in particular to learn the Long-suffering of God in General, which is so plentifully revealed in the whole Scripture, both of the Old and New Testament, and only occasionally at any time mentioned by St. Paul.