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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.
1. The Radical fundamental Equity of this Grant lies in his Divine Nature: and his creation of Angels, over whom as Mediator he is made Lord. Unto the general Assertion of his being made Heir of all, the Apostle in this place subjoins that general Reason, manifesting the rise of the Equity of it in the Will of God, that it should be so: By whom also he made the worlds. Which reason is particularly applicable to every part of his inheritance, and is especially pleaded in reference unto Angels: Col. 1.15, 16. Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature; that is, the Heir and Lord of them all: and the reason is, Because by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by him and for him. His creation of those heavenly powers, is the foundation of his Heirship or Lordship over them. [Greek or Hebrew], that is, saith a learned man (Grotius) on the place, not created, or made; but ordered, ordained; all things were ordered by Christ, as to their state and dignity: But what reason is there to depart from the proper, usual, yea, only sense of the word, in this place? Because, saith he, mention is made of Christ, which is the name of a man, and so the Creation of all things cannot be attributed unto him. But Christ is the name of the Son of God incarnate, God and Man: Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever, Rom. 9.5. See Luke 2.11. And he is here spoken of as the Image of the invisible God, v. 15. the essential Image of the Father, endowed with all his eternal Attributes, and so the Creator of all. The Socinians add, that the words are used in the abstract, Principalities and Powers, and therefore their Dignities, not their Persons are intended. But, 1. All things created in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, are the Substances and Essences of things themselves, and not their Qualities and Places only. 2. The Distribution into Thrones and Dominions, Principalities and Powers, respects only the last branch of things affirmed to be created by him, namely, things in heaven, invisible;
1. The Radical fundamental Equity of this Grant lies in his Divine Nature: and his creation of Angels, over whom as Mediator he is made Lord. Unto the general Assertion of his being made Heir of all, the Apostle in this place subjoyns that general Reason, manifesting the rise of the Equity of it in the Will of God, that it should be so: By whom also he made the worlds. Which reason is particularly applicable to every part of his inheritance, and is especially pleaded in reference unto Angels: