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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.
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.
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 mannaged 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 perswasion hath cast them, as we shall see, upon a woful and fatal mistake. Two Priviledges did God grant unto Abraham upon his Separation to a special interest in the Old Promise and Covenant.
First, That according to the flesh, he should be the Father of the Messiah; the promised seed, who was the very Life of the Covenant, the Fountain and Cause of all the Blessings contained in it. That this Privilege was temporary, having a limited season, time and end appointed unto it, the very nature of the thing it self doth demonstrate. For upon this actual Exhibition in the flesh, it was to cease. In pursuit hereof, were his posterity separated from the rest of the world, and preserved a peculiar people, that through them the promised seed might be brought forth in the fullness of time, and be of them according unto the flesh, Rom. 9.5.