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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.
One Joseph the Son of Caehias was in the beginning of those days High-Priest, put into § 5 that Office by Agrippa, who not long before had put him out. On the death of Festus he thrust him out again, and placed Ananus his Son in his stead. This man, a young rash Fellow, by Sect and Opinion a Sadducee, (who of all others were the most violent in their hatred of the Christians, being especially engaged therein by the peculiar Opinion of their Sect and Party, which was the denial of the Resurrection) first began a direct Persecution of the Church. Before his advancement to the Priesthood, their Afflictions and Calamities were for the most part common unto them, with other peaceable men. Only the rude and impious multitude, with other seditious persons, seem to have offered especial violences unto their Assemblies and Meetings, which some of the more unsteadfast and weak, began to omit on that account, Chap. 10.25. Judicial proceeding against them as to their lives, when this Epistle was written, there doth not appear to have been any; for the Apostle tells them, as we before observed, that as yet they had not resisted unto blood, Chap. 12. v. 4. But this Ananus the Sadducee presently after being placed in power by Agrippa, taking advantage at the death of Festus, and the time that passed before Albinus his Successor was settled in the Province, convents James before himself and his Associates. There to make short work he is condemned, and immediately stoned. And it is not unlikely but that other private Persons suffered together with him.
One Joseph the Son of Caehias was in the beginning of those dayes High-Priest, put into § 5 that Office by Agrippa, who not long before had put him out. On the death of Festus he thrust him out again, and placed Ananus his Son in his stead. This man, a young rash Fellow, by Sect and Opinion a Sadduce, (who of all others were the most violent in their hatred of the Christians, being especially ingaged therein by the peculiar Opinion of their Sect and Party, which was the denyal of the Resurrection) first began a direct Persecution of the Church. Before his advancement to the Priesthood, their Afflictions and Calamities were for the most part common unto them, with other peaceable men. Only the rude and impious multitude, with other seditious persons, seem to have offered especial violences unto their Assemblies and Meetings, which some of the more unsteadfast and weak, began to omit on that account, Chap. 10.25. Judicial proceeding against them as to their lives, when this Epistle was written, there doth not appear to have been any; for the Apostle tells them, as we before observed, that as yet they had not resisted unto blood, Chap. 12. v. 4. But this Ananus the Sadduce presently after being placed in power by Agrippa, taking advantage at the death of Festus, and the time that passed before Albinus his Successor was setled in the Province, convents James before himself and his Associates. There to make short work he is condemned, and immediately stoned. And it is not unlikely but that other private Persons suffered together with him.