A53696:1600
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.
3. These thus given him of the Father and redeemed by him, are of two sorts. 1. Such as are actually called to faith in him, and Union with him. These are further become his, upon many other especial accounts. They are his, in all Relations of Subjection, his Children, Servants, Brethren, Disciples, Subjects, his House, his Spouse. He stands towards them in all Relations of Authority; is their Father, Master, Elder Brother, Teacher, King, Lord, Ruler, Judge, Husband; Ruling in them by his Spirit and Grace, over them by his Laws in his Word, preserving them by his power; chastening them in his Care and Love, feeding them out of his stores, trying them, and delivering them in his Wisdom, Bearing with their miscarriages in his Patience, and taking them for his portion, lot and inheritance; in his Providence, raising them at the last day, taking them to himself in Glory, every way avouching them to be his, and himself to be their Lord and Master.
2. Some of them, are always uncalled, and shall be so, until the whole number of them be completed and filled. But before, they belong on the former accounts, unto his Lot, Care and Rule, John 10.6. They are already his sheep by grant and purchase, though not yet really so by Grace and Holiness: They are not yet his, by present Obediential Subjection, but they are his by Eternal Designation and real Acquisition.
2. Some of them, are alwayes uncalled, and shall be so, untill the whole number of them be compleated and filled. But before, they belong on the former accounts, unto his Lot, Care and Rule, John 10.6. They are already his sheep by grant and purchase, though not yet really so by Grace and Holiness: They are not yet his, by present Obediential Subjection, but they are his by Eternal Designation and reall Acquisition.