A53696:1808
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.
This beginning of the Epistle, as hath been declared, contains a summary Proposition of those things, which the Apostle intends severally to insist upon throughout the whole. And these all relate to the Person and Offices of the Messiah, the principal subject of this Epistle. Having therefore first declared him to be the great Prophet of the New Testament; and Secondly, the Lord, Ruler and Governor of all things, as also manifested the Equity of the Grant of that universal Sovereignty unto him, from the Excellency of his Person on the account of his Divine Nature, and the Operations thereof in the works of Creation and Providence, he proceeds to finish and close his general proposition of the Argument of the Epistle, by a brief intimation of his Priestly-Office, with what he did therein, and what ensued thereon, in the remaining words of this Verse.
This beginning of the Epistle, as hath been declared, contains a summary Proposition of those things, which the Apostle intends severally to insist upon throughout the whole. And these all relate to the Person and Offices of the Messiah, the principal subject of this Epistle. Having therefore first declared him to be the great Prophet of the New Testament; and Secondly, the Lord, Ruler and Governour of all things, as also manifested the Equity of the Grant of that universal Soveraignty unto him, from the Excellency of his Person on the account of his Divine Nature, and the Operations thereof in the works of Creation and Providence, he proceeds to finish and close his general proposition of the Argument of the Epistle, by a brief intimation of his Priestly-Office, with what he did therein, and what ensued thereon, in the remaining words of this Verse.
And this Order and Method of the Apostle, is required by the nature of the things themselves whereof he treats. For the work of purging sins, which as a Priest he assigns unto him, cannot well be declared, without a previous manifestation of his Divine Nature. For it is opus [Greek or Hebrew], a work of him who is God and man. For as God takes it to be his property to blot out our sins, so he could not have done it by himself, had he not been man also: And this is asserted in the next words.