A53696:1681
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.
We have now obtained liberty by removing the entanglements cast in our way, to proceed to the opening of the genuine sense and importance of these words.
[Greek or Hebrew]; by whom; not as an Instrument or an inferior intermediate created Cause; for then also must he be created by himself, seeing all things that were made, were made by him, Joh. 1.3. but as his own eternal Word, Wisdom and Power▪ Prov. 8.22, 23, 24. Joh. 1.3. The same individual creating act, being the work of Father and Son; whose Power and Wisdom being one and the same individed, so also are the works which outwardly proceed from them. And as the joint-working of Father and Son doth not infer any other subordination but that of subsistence and order; so the Preposition [Greek or Hebrew] doth not of it self intimate the subjection of an instrumental Cause, being used sometimes to express the work of the Father himself, Gal. 1.1.
〈non-Latin alphabet〉; by whom; not as an Instrument or an inferiour intermediate created Cause; for then also must he be created by himself, seeing all things that were made, were made by him, Joh. 1.3. but as his own eternal Word, Wisdom and Power▪ Prov. 8.22, 23, 24. Joh. 1.3. The same individual creating act, being the work of Father and Son; whose Power and Wisdom being one and the same individed, so also are the works which outwardly proceed from them. And as the joint-working of Father and Son doth not inferr any other subordination but that of subsistence and order; so the Preposition doth not of it self intimate the subjection of an instrumental Cause, being used sometimes to express the work of the Father himself,