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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.
The Testimony of the first Churches, of whose Testimony any record is yet remaining, § 26 with a successive Suffrage of the most Knowing Persons of following Ages, may also be pleaded in this Cause. Setting aside that limitation of this Testimony, which with the grounds and occasions of it as to some in the Latin Church, we have already granted and declared, and this Witness will be acknowledged to be Catholic as to all other Churches in the World. A Learned Man of late hath reckoned up and reported the Words of above thirty of the Greek Fathers, and fifty of the Latin reporting this Primitive Tradition. I shall not trouble the Reader with a Catalogue of their Names, nor the Repetition of their Words, and that because the whole of what in general we assert as to the Eastern Church is acknowledged. Amongst them was this Epistle first made public, as they had far more advantages of discovering the Truth in this Matter of Fact, than any in the Roman Church, or that elsewhere followed them in after Ages could have. Neither had they any thing, but the Conviction and Evidence of Truth its self to induce them to embrace this Persuasion. And he that shall consider the Condition of the first Churches under Persecution, and what difficulties they met withal in Communicating those Apostolical Writings which were delivered unto any of them, with that special Obstruction ⟨p. 38⟩unto the spreading of this unto the Hebrews, of which we have already discoursed, cannot rationally otherwise conceive of it, but as an eminent fruit of the Good Providence of God, that it should so soon receive so public an Attestation from the first Churches, as it evidently appears to have done.
The Testimony of the first Churches, of whose Testimony any record is yet remaining, § 26 with a successive Suffrage of the most Knowing Persons of following Ages, may also be pleaded in this Cause. Setting aside that limitation of this Testimony, which with the grounds and occasions of it as to some in the Latin Church, we have already granted and declared, and this Witness will be acknowledged to be Catholick as to all other Churches in the World. A Learned Man of late hath reckoned up and reported the Words of above thirty of the Greek Fathers, and fifty of the Latin reporting this Primitive Tradition. I shall not trouble the Reader with a Catalogue of their Names, nor the Repetition of their Words, and that because the whole of what in general we assert as to the Eastern Church is acknowledged. Amongst them was this Epistle first made publick, as they had far more advantages of discovering the Truth in this Matter of Fact, than any in the Roman Church, or that elsewhere followed them in after Ages could have. Neither had they any thing, but the Conviction and Evidence of Truth its self to induce them to embrace this Perswasion. And he that shall consider the Condition of the first Churches under Persecution, and what difficulties they met withal in Communicating those Apostolical Writings which were delivered unto any of them, with that special Obstruction