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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.
The time fixed on, was about the death of Festus, who dyed in the Province, and the § 4 beginning of the Government of Albinus who was sent to succeed him. What was the state of the people at that time, Josephus declares at large in his Second Book of their Wars. In brief, the Governors themselves being great Oppressors, and rather mighty Robbers amongst them, than Rulers, the whole Nation was filled with Spoil and Violence. What through the fury and outrage of the Soldiers in the pursuit of their insatiable Avarice; what through the Incursions of Thieves and Robbers in Troops and Companies, wherewith the whole Land abounded, and what through the tumults of Seditious persons daily incited and provoked by the cruelty of the Romans, there was no peace or safety for any sober honest men, either in the City of Jerusalem, or any where else throughout the whole Province. That the Church had a great share of suffering, in the outrage and misery of those days, (as in such dissolutions of Government, and Licence for all wickedness, it commonly falls out) no man can question. And this is that which the Apostle mentions, Chap. 10.31, 32, 33, 34. Ye endured a great sight of afflictions, partly whilst ye were made a gazing-stock, both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly whilst ye became companions of them that were so used, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods. This was the lot and portion of all honest and sober minded men in those days, as their Historian at large declares. For as no doubt the Christians had a principal share in all those sufferings, so some others of the Jews also, were their Companions in them; it being not a special persecution, but a general calamity that the Apostle speaks of.
The time fixed on, was about the death of Festus, who dyed in the Province, and the § 4 beginning of the Government of Albinus who was sent to succeed him. What was the state of the people at that time, Josephus declares at large in his Second Book of their Wars. In brief, the Governours themselves being great Oppressors, and rather mighty Robbers amongst them, than Rulers, the whole Nation was filled with Spoil and Violence. What through the fury and outrage of the Souldiers in the pursuit of their insatiable Avarice; what through the Incursions of Thieves and Robbers in Troops and Companies, wherewith the whole Land abounded, and what through the tumults of Seditious persons daily incited and provoked by the cruelty of the Romans, there was no peace or safety for any sober honest men, either in the City of Jerusalem, or any where else throughout the whole Province. That the Church had a great share of suffering, in the outrage and misery of those dayes, (as in such dissolutions of Government, and Licence for all wickedness, it commonly falls out) no man can question. And this is that which the Apostle mentions, Chap. 10.31, 32, 33, 34. Ye endured a great sight of aflictions, partly whilest ye were made a gazing-stock, both by reproaches and aflictions, and partly whilest ye became companions of them that were so used, and took joyfully the spoyling of your goods. This was the lot and portion of all honest and sober minded men in those dayes, as their Historian at large declares. For as no doubt the Christians had a principal share in all those sufferings, so some others of the Jews also, were their Companions in them; it being not a special persecution, but a general calamity that the Apostle speaks of.