A53696:1760
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.
1. Hypostasis of the Father, is the Father himself. Hereof, or of him, is the Son said to be the express image. As is the Father, so is the Son. And this agreement, likeness and conveniency, between the Father and the Son, is Essential, not Accidental; as those things are between relations finite and corporeal. What the Father is, doth, hath; that the Son is, doth, hath; or else the Father as the Father could not be fully satisfied in him, nor represented by him.
2. By Character two things seem to be intended. 1. That the Son in himself is [Greek or Hebrew], in the likeness of God, Phil. 2.6. 2. That unto us he is [Greek or Hebrew], the image of God, representing him unto us, Col. 1.16. For these three words are used of the Lord Christ in respect unto God the Father; [Greek or Hebrew]; and their use seems thus to difference them. 1. That is said of him, [Greek or Hebrew], being existing, subsisting in the form of God; that is, being so, essentially so; for there is no [Greek or Hebrew], or Form in the Deity, but what is Essential unto it. This he was absolutely, antecedently unto his Incarnation. The whole Nature of God being in him, and consequently he being in the Form of God. 2. In the Manifestation of God unto us, he is said to be [Greek or Hebrew], Col. 1.16. The image of the invisible God; because in him, so partaker of the Nature of the Father, do the Power, Goodness, Holiness, Grace, and ⟨p. 56⟩all other glorious Properties of God shine forth, being in him represented unto us, 2 Cor. 4.6. And both these seem to be comprised in this word, [Greek or Hebrew]; both that the whole Nature of God is in him, as also that by him God is declared and expressed unto us.