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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
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This distribution so far as it is intimated in the words of our Saviour, doth evidently arise from the Nature and Subject Matter of the Books themselves. And this was the received division of the Books of the Old Testament, whilst the Judaical Church stood and Continued; But the Postalmudicall Doctors overlooking or neglecting the true Reason of this Distribution, have fancied others, taken from the different manners and degrees of Revelation, by which they were given out unto the Church. Amongst these they make the Revelation to Moses the most excellent, and are very vain in coining the Privileges and Preeminences it had above all others, which are elsewhere examined. In the next degree they place those which proceeded from the Spirit of Prophecy, which they distinguish from the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Yea, in the eleven degrees of Divine Revelation assigned by Maimonides Mor. Nebu: par. 2. That by Inspiration is cast into the last and lowest place. But this distinction is groundless and merely fancied out of the various ways, that God was pleased to use in representing things to the minds of the Prophets; when it was in them all, the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost alone, that enabled them infallibly to declare the mind of God unto the Church, 2 Pet. 1.21.
This distribution so far as it is intimated in the words of our Saviour, doth evidently arise from the Nature and Subject Matter of the Books themselves. And this was the received division of the Books of the Old Testament, whilest the Judaical Church stood and Continued; But the Postalmudicall Doctors overlooking or neglecting the true Reason of this Distribution, have fancied others, taken from the different manners and degrees of Revelation, by which they were given out unto the Church. Amongst these they make the Revelation to Moses the most excellent, and are very vain in coining the Priviledges and Preeminences it had above all others, which are elsewhere examined. In the next degree they place those which proceeded from the Spirit of Prophesie, which they distinguish from the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Yea, in the eleven degrees of Divine Revelation assigned by Maimonides Mor. Nebu: par. 2. That by Inspiration is cast into the last and lowest place. But this distinction is groundless and meerly fancied out of the various wayes, that God was pleased to use in representing things to the minds of the Prophets; when it was in them all, the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost alone, that enabled them infallibly to declare the mind of God unto the Church,