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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
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(2.) The Method of his procedure is the same with that of his other Epistles, which also was peculiar unto him. Now this in most of them, yea in all of them not regulated by some particular occasions, is first to lay down the Doctrinal Mysteries of the Gospel, vindicating them from Oppositions and Exceptions, and then to descend to Exhortations unto Obedience deduced from them, with an enumeration of such special Moral Duties, as those unto whom he wrote, stood in need to be minded of. This is the general Method of his Epistles, to the Romans, Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, and the most of the rest. And this also is observed in this Epistle. Only whereas he had a special respect unto the Apostasy of some of the Hebrews, occasioned by the Persecution which then began to grow high against them, what ever Argument or Testimony in his passage gave him advantage to press an Exhortation unto constancy, and to debtor them from back-sliding, he lays hold upon it, and diverts into practical Inferences unto that purpose, before he comes to his general Exhortations towards the end of the Epistle. Excepting this occasional difference, the Method of this is the same with that used in the other Epistles of Paul, and which was peculiarly his own.
(2.) The Method of his proceedure is the same with that of his other Epistles, which also was peculiar unto him. Now this in most of them, yea in all of them not regulated by some particular occasions, is first to lay down the Doctrinal Mysteries of the Gospel, vindicating them from Oppositions and Exceptions, and then to descend to Exhortations unto Obedience deduced from them, with an enumeration of such special Moral Duties, as those unto whom he wrote, stood in need to be minded of. This is the general Method of his Epistles, to the Romans, Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, and the most of the rest. And this also is observed in this Epistle. Only whereas he had a special respect unto the Apostacy of some of the Hebrews, occasioned by the Persecution which then began to grow high against them, what ever Argument or Testimony in his passage gave him advantage to press an Exhortation unto constancy, and to deterr them from back-sliding, he layes hold upon it, and diverts into practical Inferences unto that purpose, before he comes to his general Exhortations towards the end of the Epistle. Excepting this occasional difference, the Method of this is the same with that used in the other Epistles of Paul, and which was peculiarly his own.