A53696:1629
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.
This is another most eminent part of the Inheritance and Kingdom of Christ.
II. All Gifts that are bestowed on any of the sons of men, whereby they are differenced from others, or made useful unto others, belong also unto the Inheritance and Kingdom of Christ.
Gifts bestowed on men are either Natural or Spiritual: Natural Gifts are especial Endowments of the Persons or Minds of men, in Relation unto things appertaining unto ⟨p. 37⟩this Life; as Wisdom, Learning, skill and cunning in Arts and Sciences: I call them Natural, in respect of the Objects that they are exercised about, which are [Greek or Hebrew], things of this life, as also in respect of their End and Use. They are not always so, as to their rise and spring, but may be immediately infused, as Wisdom was into Solomon, for Civil Government, 1 King 9.12. and skill for all manner of Mechanical Operations into Bezaleel, Exod. 31.2, 3, 6. But how far these gifts are educed in an ordinary course of Providence, out of their hidden seeds and principles in nature, in a just connection of Causes and Effects, and so fall under a certain Law of Acquisition, or what there may be of the Interposition of the Spirit of God in an especial manner, immediately conferring them on any, falls not under our present consideration of them. Nor yet can we insist on their Use, which is such, that they are the great Instrument in the hand of God for the preservation of Humane Society, and to keep the course of mans life and pilgrimage from being wholly brutish. I design only to show, that even they also belong (though more remotely) to the Lordship of Jesus Christ; which they do on two accounts;