A53696:1604
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. His interposition upon the entrance of Sin against the immediate Execution of the Curse due unto it; as befell the Angels: This fixed the World under a Dispensation of,
1. Forbearance and Patience, Rom. 2.4, 5. Acts 17.30 Rom. 9.22. Psal. 75.3.
2. Goodness and Mercy, Acts 14.16, 17.
That God who spared not the Angels, when they sinned, but immediately cast them into chains of darkness, should place sinners of the Race of Adam, under a dispensation of Forbearance and Goodness, that he should spare them with much Long-suffering during their Pilgrimage on the earth, and fill their hearts with food and gladness, with all those fruits of kindness, which the womb of his Providence is still bringing forth for their benefit and advantage, is thus far on the account of the Lord Christ, that though these things as relating unto Reprobates, are no part of his especial purchase, as Mediator of the Everlasting Covenant of Grace, yet they are a necessary consequent of his Interposition