A53696:1694
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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4. From this Order of things, that Christ as the Eternal Son of God having made the worlds, hath them and all things in them put under his power as Mediator and Head of the Church; we may see what a subserviency to the interest of the Saints of the most High, the whole Creation is laid and disposed in. And,
5. The way of obtaining a sanctified Interest in, and use of the things of the Old Creation; namely, not to receive them merely on the general account as made by the Son of God, but on the more especial of their being granted unto him, as Mediator of the Church. And,
5. The way of obtaining a sanctified Interest in, and use of the things of the Old Creation; namely, not to receive them meerly on the general account as made by the Son of God, but on the more especial of their being granted unto him, as Mediator of the Church. And,
6. How men on both these foundations, are to be accountable for their use or abuse of the things of the first Creation.
But besides these particular Instances, there is that which is more general, and which we may a little insist upon from the Context and design of the Apostle in this whole discourse, whose consideration will not again occur unto us; and it is, That God in infinite wisdom ordered all things in the first Creation, so as that the whole of that work might be subservient to the glory of his grace in the new creation of all by Jesus Christ.