A53696:1708
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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Thirdly, God would hereby instruct us, both in the Use that we are to make of his creatures, and the improvement that we are to make of the work of the Creation unto his glory. For the first, it is his Will that we should not use any thing as merely made and created by him, though originally for that purpose; seeing as they are so left, they are under the curse, and so impure and unclean unto them that use them, Tit. 1.15. But he would have us to look upon them, and receive them as they are given over unto Christ. For the Apostle in his Application of the eighth Psalm unto the Lord Christ, chap. 2.6, 7, 8. manifests, that even the beasts of the field, on which we live, are passed over in a peculiar manner unto his Dominion. And he lays our interest in their use as to a clear, profitable, and sanctified way of it, in the new state of things brought in by Christ. 1 Tim. 4.4, 5. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. The word of promise confirmed in Christ, called on by the Spirit, given by Christ in prayer, gives a sanctified use of the creatures. This God instructs us in, namely to look for a profitable sanctified Use of the creatures in Christ, in that himself ordered them in the very first Creation, to fall at length naturally under his Rule and Dominion, making them all by him. And hereby also we are instructed how to learn the glory of God from them. The whole mystery of laying the works of the old Creation in a subserviency unto the New, being hidden from many Ages and Generations, from the foundation of the world men did by the Effects and works which they saw, conclude, that there was an Eternal Power and Infinite Wisdom, whereby they were produced. But whereas there is but a two-fold holy use of the works of the Creation, the one suited unto the state of Innocency, and the moral natural Worship of God therein, which they had lost; the other, to the state of Grace, and the Worship of God in that, which they had not attained, the world and the inhabitants thereof being otherwise involved in the Curse and Darkness wherewith it was attended, exercised themselves in fruitless speculations about them, (foolish imaginations, as the Apostle calls them) and glorified not God in any due manner, Rom. 1.21.