A53696:1668
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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2. He adds, There is an allusion only in the words unto the first Creation, as in John, Chap. 1.1, 2, 3. where the Apostle sets out the beginning of the Gospel in the terms whereby Moses reports the Creation of the world: And therefore mentions light in particular, because of an allusion to the light at first created by God, when of all other things wherein there is no such allusion he maketh no mention.
Answ. 1. The new Creation granted by the men of this persuasion, being only a ⟨p. 42⟩moral Suasion of the minds of men by the outward Doctrine of the Gospel, I know not what Allusion can be fancied in it, unto the Creation of the world out of nothing.
Answ. 1. The new Creation granted by the men of this perswasion, being only a ⟨p. 42⟩moral Swasion of the minds of men by the outward Doctrine of the Gospel, I know not what Allusion can be fancied in it, unto the Creation of the world out of nothing.
2. It is granted that the Apostle speaks here of the same Creation that John treats of in the beginning of his Gospel; but that that is the Creation of the whole world, and all things contained in it, hath been elsewhere proved; and must be granted, or we may well despair of ever understanding one line in the Scripture, or what we ordinarily speak one to another.