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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 Story (by the way) of the Martyrdom of this James is at large reported by § 6 Eusebius out of H•gesippus, Histor. Eccles. l. 2. cap. 23. in the Relation whereof he is followed by Hierom, and sundry others. I shall say no more of the whole Story, but that the Consideration of it, is very sufficient to persuade any man to use the liberty of his own Reason and Judgement in the perusal of the Writings of the Ancients. For of the Circumstances therein reported, about this James and his death, many of them (as his being of the Line of the Priests, his entering at his pleasure into the Sanctum Sanctorum, his being carried up and set by a great multitude of people on a pinnacle of the Temple) ⟨p. 42⟩are so palpably false, that no colour of probability can be given unto them, and most of the rest seem altogether incredible. That in general this Holy Apostle of Jesus Christ, his kinsman according to the flesh, was stoned by Ananus, during the Anarchy between the Governments of Festus and Albinus, Josephus who then lived testifies, and all Ecclesiastical Historians agree.
The Story (by the way) of the Martyrdome of this James is at large reported by § 6 Eusebius out of H•gesippus, Histor. Eccles. l. 2. cap. 23. in the Relation whereof he is followed by Hierom, and sundry others. I shall say no more of the whole Story, but that the Consideration of it, is very sufficient to perswade any man to use the liberty of his own Reason and Judgement in the perusal of the Writings of the Antients. For of the Circumstances therein reported, about this James and his death, many of them (as his being of the Line of the Priests, his entring at his pleasure into the Sanctum Sanctorum, his being carried up and set by a great multitude of people on a pinacle of the Temple) ⟨p. 42⟩are so palpably false, that no colour of probability can be given unto them, and most of the rest seem altogether incredible. That in general this Holy Apostle of Jesus Christ, his kinsman according to the flesh, was stoned by Ananus, during the Anarchie between the Governments of Festus and Albinus, Josephus who then lived testifies, and all Ecclesiastical Historians agree.