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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.
Unto this Church so founded and built on this Covenant, and by the means thereof the Redeeming Mediatory Seed promised therein, were all the following Promises, and the Privileges exhibited in them, given and annexed. Neither hath, or ever had any individual Person, any Spiritual right unto, or interest in any of those Promises or Privileges, whatever his outward condition were, but only by virtue of his Membership in ⟨p. 55⟩the Church built on the Covenant, whereunto as we said, they do all appertain. On this account the Church before the days of Abraham, though scattered up and down in the world, and subject unto many changes in its worship by the addition of New Revelations, was still but one and the same; because founded in the same Covenant, and entrusted thereby in all the Benefits or Privileges, that God had given or granted, or would do so at any time unto his Church.
Unto this Church so founded and built on this Covenant, and by the means thereof the Redeeming Mediatory Seed promised therein, were all the following Promises, and the Priviledges exhibited in them, given and annexed. Neither hath, or ever had any individual Person, any Spiritual right unto, or interest in any of those Promises or Priviledges, whatever his outward condition were, but only by vertue of his Membership in ⟨p. 55⟩the Church built on the Covenant, whereunto as we said, they do all appertain. On this account the Church before the dayes of Abraham, though scattered up and down in the world, and subject unto many changes in its worship by the addition of New Revelations, was still but one and the same; because founded in the same Covenant, and intrusted thereby in all the Benefits or Priviledges, that God had given or granted, or would do so at any time unto his Church.
In process of time, God was pleased to confine this Church, as unto the ordinary visible § 3 dispensation of his Grace, unto the Person and Posterity of Abraham. Upon this restriction of the Church, Covenant, and Promise, the Jews of old managed a Plea in their own Justification against the Doctrine of the Lord Christ and his Apostles. We are the children, the seed of Abraham, was their continual cry; on the account whereof, they presumed that all the Promises belonged unto them, and upon the matter unto them alone. And this their persuasion hath cast them, as we shall see, upon a woeful and fatal mistake. Two Privileges did God grant unto Abraham upon his Separation to a special interest in the Old Promise and Covenant.