A53696:1587
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
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3. The Church of Mankind militant on the earth, whose conduct unto Eternal Glory is committed unto Christ, stands in need of the ministry of Angels. And therefore hath God granted Rule and Power over them unto him, that nothing might be wanting to enable him to save unto the uttermost them that come unto God by him. So God hath given him to be head over all things to the Church, Ephes. 1.22. that he should with an absolute sovereignty, use, and dispose of all things to the benefit and advantage of the Church.
3. The Church of Mankind militant on the earth, whose conduct unto Eternal Glory is committed unto Christ, stands in need of the ministery of Angels. And therefore hath God granted Rule and Power over them unto him, that nothing might be wanting to enable him to save unto the uttermost them that come unto God by him. So God hath given him to be head over all things to the Church, Ephes. 1.22. that he should with an absolute sovereignty, use, and dispose of all things to the benefit and advantage of the Church.
This is the first branch of the Lordship and Dominion of Christ, according to the distribution of the severals of it before laid down. He is Lord of Angels, and they are all of them his servants, the fellow-servants of them that have the testimony of Jesus. And as some men do wilfully cast themselves by their Religious adoration of Angels, under the curse of Canaan, to be servants unto servants, Gen. 8.25. so it is the great honour and privilege of true believers, that in their worship of Christ, they are admitted into the society of an innumerable company of Angels, Heb. 12.22. Rev. 15.11, 13. for they are not ashamed to esteem them their fellow-servants, whom their Lord and King is not ashamed to call his Brethren. And herein consists our communion with them, that we have one common Head and Lord; and any intercourse with them, but only on this account, or any worship performed towards them, breaks the bond of that communion, and causeth us not to hold the Head,