A53696:1773
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 Father being thus in the Son, and the Son in the Father, whereby all the glorious Properties of the one do shine forth in the other, the order and Economy of the blessed Trinity in Subsistence and Operation, requires that the manifestation and communication of the Father unto us, be through and by the Son. For as the Father is the Original and Fountain of the whole Trinity as to subsistence, so as to Operation he works not but by the Son, who having the Divine Nature communicated unto him by Eternal Generation, is to communicate the Effects of the Divine Power, Wisdom ⟨p. 58⟩and Goodness by temporary Operation. And thus he becomes the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person; namely by the receiving his glorious Nature from him, the whole and all of it, and expressing him in his works of nature and grace unto his creatures.
2. The Father being thus in the Son, and the Son in the Father, whereby all the glorious Properties of the one do shine forth in the other, the order and Oeconomy of the blessed Trinity in Subsistence and Operation, requires that the manifestation and communication of the Father unto us, be through and by the Son. For as the Father is the Original and Fountain of the whole Trinity as to subsistence, so as to Operation he works not but by the Son, who having the Divine Nature communicated unto him by Eternal Generation, is to communicate the Effects of the Divine Power, Wisdom ⟨p. 58⟩and Goodness by temporary Operation. And thus he becomes the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person; namely by the receiving his glorious Nature from him, the whole and all of it, and expressing him in his works of nature and grace unto his creatures.
3. Because in the dispensation and counsel of Grace, God hath determined, that all communication of himself unto us, shall be by the Son, as incarnate. This the whole Gospel is given to testify. So that this truth hath its foundation in the very subsistence of the Persons of the Deity, is confirmed by the Order and Operation, and Voluntary Disposition in the Covenant of Grace.