A53696:1821
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.
And this part of this Verse will afford us also this distinct Observation. So great was the work of freeing us from sin, that it could no otherwise be effected but by the self-sacrifice of the Son of God.
Our Apostle makes it his design in several places to evince that none of those things ⟨p. 66⟩from whence mankind usually did, or might with any hopes or probabilities expect relief in this case, would yield them any at all.
The best that the Gentiles could attain, all that they had to trust unto, was but the Improvement of natural Light and Reason, with an attendance unto those seeds and Principles of Good and Evil, which are yet left in the depraved nature of man. Under the Conduct, and in Obedience unto these, they sought for Rest, Glory, and Immortality: how miserably they were disappointed in their aims and expectations, and what a woeful issue all their endeavours had, the Apostle declares and proves at large, Rom. 1.18. unto the end.
The best that the Gentiles could attain, all that they had to trust unto, was but the Improvement of natural Light and Reason, with an attendance unto those seeds and Principles of Good and Evil, which are yet left in the depraved nature of man. Under the Conduct, and in Obedience unto these, they sought for Rest, Glory, and Immortality: how miserably they were disappointed in their aims and expectations, and what a wofull issue all their endeavours had, the Apostle declares and proves at large, Rom. 1.18. unto the end.