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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
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 THAT was not amiss observed of Old by Chrysostom Praesat. in Com. ad Epist. ad Rom. that a due Observation of the Time and Season wherein the Epistles of Paul were written, doth give great light unto the understanding of many passages in them. This Baronius ad A.C. 55. N. 42. well confirms by an instance of their mistake, who suppose the Shipwreck of Paul at Mileta, Acts 27. to have been that mentioned by him, 2. Cor. 11. when he was a night and a day in the deep; that Epistle being written some years before his sailing towards Rome. And we may well apply this Observation to this Epistle unto the Hebrews. A discovery of the Time and season wherein it was written, will both free us from sundry mistakes, and also give us some light into the occasion and design of it. This therefore we shall now inquire into.
§ 1 THAT was not amiss observed of Old by Chrysostome Praesat. in Com. ad Epist. ad Rom. that a due Observation of the Time and Season wherein the Epistles of Paul were written, doth give great light unto the understanding of many passages in them. This Baronius ad A.C. 55. N. 42. well confirms by an instance of their mistake, who suppose the Shipwrack of Paul at Mileta, Acts 27. to have been that mentioned by him, 2. Cor. 11. when he was a night and a day in the deep; that Epistle being written some years before his sayling towards Rome. And we may well apply this Observation to this Epistle unto the Hebrews. A discovery of the Time and season wherein it was written, will both free us from sundry mistakes, and also give us some light into the occasion and design of it. This therefore we shall now inquire into.
§ 2 Some general intimations we have in the Epistle it self leading us towards this discovery, and somewhat may be gathered from some other places of Scripture: for Antiquity will afford us little or no help herein. After Pauls being brought a Prisoner to Rome,