A53696:1746
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.
I shall not examine in particular the Reasons that are alleged for these several Interpretations; but only propose and confirm that sense of the place, which on full and due consideration, appears, as agreeable unto the Analogy of Faith, so expressly to answer the Design and intendment of the Apostle; wherein also, the unsoundness of the two last branches or ways of applying the second Interpretation, with the real coincidence of the first, and first branch of the latter Exposition, will be discovered. To this End the following Positions are to be observed.
I shall not examine in particular the Reasons that are alledged for these several Interpretations; but only propose and confirm that sense of the place, which on full and due consideration, appears, as agreeable unto the Analogie of Faith, so expresly to answer the Design and intendment of the Apostle; wherein also, the unsoundness of the two last branches or wayes of applying the second Interpretation, with the real coincidence of the first, and first branch of the latter Exposition, will be discovered. To this End the following Positions are to be observed.
First, It is not the direct and immediate design of the Apostle to treat absolutely of either Nature of Christ, his Divine or Humane; but only of his Person. Hence though the things which he mentioneth and expresseth, may some of them belong unto, or be the Properties of his Divine Nature, some of his Humane, yet none of them are spoken of as such, but are all considered as belonging unto his Person. And this solves that difficulty which Chrysostom observes in the Words, and strives to remove by a similitude; namely, that the Apostle doth not observe any Order or Method, in speaking of the Divine and Humane Natures of Christ distinctly one after another; but first speaks of the one, then of the other, and then returns again to the former, and that frequently: But the Truth is, he intends not to speak directly, and absolutely of either nature of Christ; but treating ex professo of his Person, some things that he mentions concerning him, have a special Foundation in, and respect unto his Divine Nature; some in and unto his Humane, as must every thing that is spoken of him. And therefore the Method and Order of the Apostle is not to be enquired after in what relates in his